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Literature | Irony of Fate (The). A strange fatality which has brought about something quite the reverse of what might have been expected. "By the irony of fate the Ten Hours' Bill was carried in the very session when Lord Ashley, having changed his views on the Corn Laws, felt it his duty to resign his seat in Parliament." - The Leisure Hour, 1887. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Irony of Fate (1912) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
an irony of fate | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "IRONY OF FATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kohtalon iva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ironyay ofay atefay ирония судьбы. (various references) kaderin cilvesi (manifestation of fate, quirk of fate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-i-n-o-o-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: renotify. | |
-4 letters: affront, fainter, finfoot, footier, forfeit, fortify, introfy, oration, tiffany. | |
-5 letters: aerify, affine, aroint, aroynt, atoner, effort, enroot, fainer, ferity, finery, foetor, footer, footie, forint, infare, niffer, nitery, norite, notary, notify, orient, ornate, ratify, ratine, ration, ratoon, retain, retina, tariff, tonier. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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