strike twice

verb

Etymology

Alluding to the proverb lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Definitions

  1. To impact the same location, person, etc. again.

    • "Has fortune struck twice in one week? I send you out after cheese and you bring home an entire cow?”
    • And to Alistair and Jessica, from Seven Years to Sin, who inspired me to write Gideon and Eva's story. I'm so glad the inspiration struck twice!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for strike twice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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