the law of averages

Meaning

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   the principle that one thing will happen as often as another if you try enough times

   The law of averages, if I have got this right means...

In the movies · 1

• The law of averages, if I have got this right means...Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1991

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• be a law unto yourself
• go to law
• law and order
• the law of the jungle
• lay down the law
• take the law into your own hands
• there's no law against
• the letter of the law
• possession is nine tenths of the law
• the rule of law
• on the wrong side of the law