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luck of the devil
Idioms and Phrases
Also, luck of the Irish . Extraordinarily good fortune, as in You've the luck of the devil—that ball landed just on the line , or Winning the lottery—that's the luck of the Irish . These superstitious attributions of good fortune date from the first half of the 1900s.Example Sentences
"The luck of the devil's own," he said.
I've had the luck of the devil lately though,—everything I've touched has gone wrong.
And the luck of the devil is loose over all, While my trousers hang lonely and dark on the wall!
I hearkened with many misgivings, for I felt of a truth uncertain of myself in this new character—and shall I confess it—a trifle ill at ease concerning this bravo, Carne Yvard, the duelist of the iron hand, and the gamester with the luck of the devil.
War was part chance, part common sense, part the pluck and luck of the devil.
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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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