I often hear this phrase and I wonder if it's excessive. While I can conceive it possible to be in the "wrong place at the wrong time", I wonder if people are generally using the double wrong as an emphatic.
In most cases, whether someone is in the right place is measured by the events taking place. Thus, if it's midnight and I'm asleep in my bed, I'm arguably in the right place. If an airplane drops out of the sky and crashes through the roof killing me, one could say either that I was in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at that time. Do two wrongs make a right here? PE
In most cases, whether someone is in the right place is measured by the events taking place. Thus, if it's midnight and I'm asleep in my bed, I'm arguably in the right place. If an airplane drops out of the sky and crashes through the roof killing me, one could say either that I was in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at that time.
Do two wrongs make a right here?
PE