Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?
When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.