English Dictionary

in the wrong place at the wrong time

前置詞句

直訳 慣用表現

(literally) Describing actions or activities that the speaker considers inappropriate, misdirected, or unlikely to yield good results.

日本語の意味

場違いで、適切でないタイミングや状況の中で行動している、結果として望ましくない成果につながる可能性が高い状態を表す / 適当でない、環境やタイミングに合わない行動・状況を指し、失敗や不運につながる可能性がある / 適切とされる状況・時機とならない場所や瞬間に行動・存在することにより、好ましくない結果を招く可能性がある

He realized he was in the wrong place at the wrong time when the protest turned violent.

抗議が暴力化したとき、彼は不運にも場違いな場所に居合わせてしまったことに気づいた。

意味（1）

(literally) Describing actions or activities that the speaker considers inappropriate, misdirected, or unlikely to yield good results.

[The devil] must then chime in with our sentiments, our instincts, even stimulate our devotion to liberty, and defeat liberty by compelling us to seek it in the wrong place, at the wrong time, or by improper means.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) 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.

... W.H. Waring (Dellow) nearly cut short the life of a native of those parts who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and J.W. Cox got his Dellow up at incredible speed, with the front wheels leaping in the air most of the way.