If it's not one thing, it's another!
If it's not one thing, it's another!
Many unfortunate, stressful things keep happening in quick succession. First the power goes out, now the printer isn't working—I tell you, if it's not one thing, it's another! If it's not one thing, it's another this year, between losing my job, breaking my ankle, and having the basement flooded.
See also: if, not, one
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- it's one thing after another
- (it's) one damn thing after another
- be not (one's) day
- not be somebody's day
- not one's day, this is
- not someone's day
- not (one's) day
- put (one) under the cosh
- after everything is said and done
- get (a bit/a little) hairy