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born under a lucky star



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Idioms and Phrases

Very fortunate, as in Peter comes out ahead no matter what he tries; he was born under a lucky star . That stars influence human lives is an ancient idea, and lucky star was used by writers from Shakespeare to the present. The precise phrase appears in a compendium of English idioms compiled by J. Burvenich in 1905. Also see thank one's lucky stars .
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Example Sentences

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Were you, like the Mexican proverb says, born under a lucky star, or into collision?

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“I’ve done a lot of ballooning trips. My son climbed the Matterhorn a couple of years ago. We’ve been born under a lucky star, I think.”

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These days, we would say “having a guardian angel,” or “being born under a lucky star.”

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"We must have been born under a lucky star," breezed their young coach, Viktor Goncharenko.

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You were born under a lucky star, captain.

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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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