When someone takes something good and somehow manages to make it worse through their involvement — the reverse of the Midas touch, basically. Negative alchemy describes the frustrating magic of a person, plan, or situation that consistently turns gold into trash. Your group project goes from promising to disaster the moment he joins? That's negative alchemy at work. Often used to describe chronically bad decision-makers, cursed collaborators, or any process that reliably degrades quality rather than improving it. The universe's way of reminding you that not all transformation is progress.
She turns every good idea into a disaster — pure negative alchemy.
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