Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.

Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.
Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.
Prov. The same highly unlikely thing never happens to the same person twice. •

Jill: I'm scared to drive ever since that truck hit my car. Alan: Don't worry. Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

It's strange, but I feel safer since my apartment was robbed; I figure lightning never strikes the same place twice.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • lightning\ never\ strikes\ twice\ in\ the\ same\ place — proverb the same accident does not happen twice; the same person does not have the same luck again. Billy won a pony in the contest last year, but lightning never strikes twice in the same place …   Словарь американских идиом

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  • in the same place — See: LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • in the same place — See: LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE …   Dictionary of American idioms

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