The fact of device working perfectly always except when demonstrated for an audience. Something unexpected that goes wrong only when someone else than just oneself is seeing.
Somewhat connected to Murphy's law.
Deal would have been easily closed but the machine developed a demo effect during introduction.
When a person (usually a boy) puts another person (usually a girl) high up on a pedestal. Usually resulting in them ruining themselves over the fact that the person most likely isn’t interested and ruins their relationship with them and/or ruins their relationship with their friends, significant other, etc.
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.
Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.