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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

what happens twice happens thrice en · X

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 二度ある事は三度ある (“A thing that happens two times will happen three times”)

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) An event that happens two times will happen three times.

Coordinates

third time is the charm