accidents will happen

English

Alternative forms

  • accidents can happen

Phrase

accidents will happen

  1. Accidents will happen, even when a project is carefully planned.

Usage notes

Most dictionaries, including Oxford, associate this phrase with accidents will happen in the best regulated families

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