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a broken clock is right twice a day

1. idiom Even a normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information; that one is inadvertently correct does not mean that their authority or methodology should be considered authoritative when they are more often incorrect.

• 2007-10-06 23:31 - AEuSoes1 - the point is that they shouldn't be trusted, not the opposite

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