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Definition of lightning never strikes twice in the same place in English:
lightning never strikes twice in the same place
phrase
proverb
An unusual situation or event is unlikely to happen again in exactly the same circumstances or to the same person.
‘It is said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place.’
‘It is a myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place.’
‘If not, one could usually reconstruct the correct data from the printed record and the two tapes; without a printed record (sometimes the printer did not work), you punched a third tape and created the data tape for the next session on the principle that lightning never strikes twice in the same place.’
‘Thinking that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, one year after the incident administrators decided to place the figure back on his pedestal.’
‘There's an old saw that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but in the case of my wife, Annette, and me, it did.’