| 词汇 | accidentally on purpose |
| 词源 | accidentally on purpose. Someone who does something ac- cidentally on purpose does it purposely and only apparently accidentally—often maliciously, in fact. The expression is not an Americanism, originating in England in the early 1880s be- fore it became popular here. |
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