"When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions." Much like the phrase, "When it rains, it pours," the antagonist Claudius in Shakespeare's Hamlet expresses in military terms how bad things usually come in groups rather than on their own.
Claudius in Hamlet: "When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions." /CFP
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