What is The Todd Effect?
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When one survives an experience that should have killed him, only to injure himself in a mundane fashion immediately afterwords.
After Todd survived being hit by a car, he tripped and fell on his untied shoelaces and broke his arm, a victim of The Todd Effect
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To be surprised at a sentence or statement, used in the context of a reaction.
"Bush only had the best of intentions at heart"..