High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sod`s law is a name for the axiom "Anything that can go wrong, will". "Toast will always land butter side down" is often given as an example of Sod`s law in action. The phrase is seemingly derived, at least in part, from the colloquialism an "unlucky sod"; a term used to describe someone who has had some bad unlucky experience, and is usually used as a sympathetic reference to the person.