Accidentally on purpose

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Meaning

Deliberately, but feigning accident.

Origin

This phrase is first recorded in the Memoires of Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson), 1861:

"Dermody neglected the order - perhaps 'accidentally on purpose'."