in the wrong place at the wrong time

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in the location where something bad is to happen exactly when it happens. I always get into trouble. I'm just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It isn't my fault. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

See also: place, time, wrong

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Safety is a sensitive topic: Regardless of the level of focus a firm and its workers place on safety, mistakes will happen and workers will find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Safety first ... not so sure by Spada, Alfred T. / Modern Casting Mary and Martin describe his second cousin twice-removed as a quixotic idealist with a double share of bad luck, and special talents for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and for self-destruction. Soldiering for glory; the Civil War letters of Colonel Frank ... by Reference & Research Book News I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said. Coleman will stay at Sociedad until the new year by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk More results

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Safety is a sensitive topic: Regardless of the level of focus a firm and its workers place on safety, mistakes will happen and workers will find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Safety first ... not so sure by Spada, Alfred T. / Modern Casting

Mary and Martin describe his second cousin twice-removed as a quixotic idealist with a double share of bad luck, and special talents for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and for self-destruction.

Soldiering for glory; the Civil War letters of Colonel Frank ... by Reference & Research Book News

I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.

Coleman will stay at Sociedad until the new year by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

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