in the wrong place at the wrong time

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› in a situation where something bad happens to you because you are unlucky, not because you do anything wrong: A storm can come up, and if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you could get hurt.

(Definition of in the wrong place at the wrong time from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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