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Phrase(s): 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.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs