misfortunes never come singly

proverb Bad things, event, situations, outcomes, etc., almost always arrive in groups of two or more all at once or in quick succession. My mother died in a car crash when I was just 12, and then my father succumbed to his grief and passed away a few months later. Misfortunes never come singly, as they say. My business collapsed, my wife left me, and the bank repossessed my home, all in the space of a year. Misfortunes never come singly, it seems.

Misfortunes never come singly.

Prov. Bad things tend to happen in groups. I already told you that my wife lost her job. Well, misfortunes never come singly; our house was robbed last night.

词组	misfortunes never come singly
释义	misfortunes never come singly misfortunes never come singly proverb Bad things, event, situations, outcomes, etc., almost always arrive in groups of two or more all at once or in quick succession. My mother died in a car crash when I was just 12, and then my father succumbed to his grief and passed away a few months later. Misfortunes never come singly, as they say. My business collapsed, my wife left me, and the bank repossessed my home, all in the space of a year. Misfortunes never come singly, it seems. See also: come, misfortune, never Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Misfortunes never come singly. Prov. Bad things tend to happen in groups. I already told you that my wife lost her job. Well, misfortunes never come singly; our house was robbed last night. See also: come, Misfortune, never McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: a bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel a rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel bushel teach a man to fish village it takes a village require drastic times call for drastic measures References in classic literature Misfortunes never come singly, and the affairs of the reorganization of the native tribes, and of the irrigation of the lands of the Zaraisky province, had brought such official worries upon Alexey Alexandrovitch that he had been of late in a continual condition of extreme irritability. Anna Karenina At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that "misfortunes never come singly," and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip. Jane Eyre When she gave him Trefusis's letter, he said, more calmly: "Misfortunes never come singly. Read that," and handed her another letter, so that they both began reading at the same time. Unsocial Socialist
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