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Opportunity uninc. town (1990 pop. 22,326), Spokane co., E Wash., a suburb of Spokane. It is a growing residential town.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Â© The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

opportunity opportunity makes a thief proverbial saying, early 13th century, often used to imply that the carelessness of the person who is robbed has contributed to the crime.
opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door proverbial saying, mid 16th century, meaning that a chance once missed will not occur again (in early versions of the proverb, fortune occurs instead of opportunity). A similar idea is found in early 15th-century French, ‘there is no opportunity which comes back again.’

See also England's danger is Ireland's opportunity, man's extremity is God's opportunity, window of opportunity.

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Opportunity One of two identical NASA Mars Exploration Rovers. Opportunity was launched in 2003July and landed in 2004January on Meridiani Planum near the Martian equator. Its instruments confirmed that liquid water had been present at that location in the past.

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