Citations:strike twice

English citations of strike twice

• 2011 August 8, Hikaru Nakamura, Bruce Harper, Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate, SCB Distributors, →ISBN:

  Who would have expected lightning to strike twice? Can we learn something about the psychology of chess mistakes from these parallel games? Maybe – since both games were played between the same opponents on the same day,

• 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

  Last year it was the final and Ben Watson's crazy last-minute winner. That was the greatest day in their history, but this was just as remarkable. This time it was a quarter-final at Fortress Etihad where no one, probably not even Wigan, truly expected lightning to strike twice.

• 2014 October 7, James G. Bilder, Artillery Scout: The Story of a Forward Observer with the U.S. Field Artillery in World War I, Casemate, →ISBN:

  Lenny threw himself into a shell hole hoping that lightning wouldn't strike twice. The bombs hit horses, caisson , and even the chow line by the rolling kitchen that Len would have been standing in if he hadn't been writing a letter to Maggie instead. It was as if it were raining flesh and entrails.

• 2019 May 23, Mahsuda Snaith, How To Find Home, Random House, →ISBN:

  I wonder […] if he was checking behind him, hoping lightning wouldn't strike twice like the bolts in his hair. I didn't see the hunting knife after that.

• 2022 October 19, Merrillee Whren, Puppy Love and Christmas Cookies, Merrillee Whren, →ISBN:

  He wished he could have a clear answer. With Ciara he had known immediately that she was the one for him. Had he expected lightning to strike twice in his life? Chapter Ten Charlie greeted Lesley with an exuberant bark and.