All Part of the Plan

What it means

Said of something that has just gone wrong, usually by whoever is responsible.

Where it comes from

Military planners have a saying that no plan survives contact with the enemy, which is normally attributed to Helmuth von Moltke. He wrote it in the 1870s, and he was not being reassuring.

The puzzle it came from

All Part of the Plan was the answer to the Phrasicle of April 6, 2025. The clue read ____ ____ of the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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