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in the wrong place at the wrong time

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Prepositional phrase

  1. Describing actions or activities that the speaker considers inappropriate, misdirected, or unlikely to yield good results.
  2. At a location or in a situation by where something bad is about to happen at just the time of its occurrence by bad luck.

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