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beginner's luck
noun
- the initial good fortune or success commonly supposed to come to a person who has recently taken up a new pursuit, as a sport or game:
Catching a large trout the first time you go fishing is simply beginner's luck.
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Origin of beginner's luck1
Idioms and Phrases
Good fortune in a first attempt or effort, as in I often use a brand-new recipe for a dinner party; I trust beginner's luck . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
It was beginner’s luck, not skill, that saved him from slamming into that mountain, Reynolds said.
I still think it's beginner's luck, but then lockdown was a long time ago.
The 29-year-old initially thought it must have been beginner's luck - but it kept happening.
Was the success of “Once” beginner’s luck or simply sparks cast off by one of its leads, Glen Hansard, Carney’s longtime bandmate in the Frames?
And these aren’t cases of beginner’s luck.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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