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Lightning never strikes twice
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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Dominica | | - | English (Rare), Late Roman |
| Tatu | | TAH-too | Finnish |
| PÁLl | | POWTL (Icelandic) | Icelandic, Faroese |
| Rosaleen | | ROZ-ə-leen | English (Rare) |
| Sander | | SAHN-dər (Dutch) | Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
| Mercedes | | mer-THE-dhes (Spanish), mer-SE-dhes (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |