lightning strike

English

Lightning strike (sense 2)

Noun

lightning strike (plural lightning strikes)

(Britain) a (perhaps unofficial) strike by workers with little or no warning.
an event during an electrical storm where lightning strikes (an object on) the ground, or an aircraft in flight.

Related terms

(sense 1) wildcat strike
(sense 2) lightning never strikes twice in the same place

Translations

event during an electrical storm

Dutch: blikseminslag (nl) m
Japanese: いなずま (ja)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lynnedslag n

Nynorsk: lynnedslag n

Swedish: blixtnedslag n

References

“lightning strike” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

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