What is irony?

Question

Struggling to understand the difference between irony and unfortunate events. My partner is quite smart and I don’t want to make a fool of myself.

EDIT – Thanks everyone, your responses have really helped. Hopefully I’ll be less likely to make a fool of myself describing something as ironic, in the future.

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Answer 1

Its when you mix up a pitcher of juice but you use a dodgy rusty iron spoon to dissolve the sugar so the rust flakes off the spoon into the juice – the resulting mixture tastes “irony”