Lightning never strikes twice (in the same place).

MEANING:

said to show that it is unlikely that something bad or unusual will happen to the same person twice

EXAMPLE SENTENCES


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.

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.

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.