unlucky day
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It’s also linked to the modern evolution of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, based in part on Thomas Lawson’s 1907 best-seller about a corrupt stockbroker who crashes the market.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
"They were intrigued by folklore and put Friday and 13 together and created a doubly unlucky day," she said.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024
Cressy's serve-and-volley style created some frustrations for Medvedev, who said late in the fourth set that this was the "most unlucky day I’ve ever had in my life."
From Fox News • Jan. 24, 2022
Cressy’s serve-and-volley style created some frustrations for Medvedev, who said late in the fourth set that this was the “most unlucky day I’ve ever had in my life.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2022
And I guess it was my unlucky day, because inside, the same bald-headed dude who’d been working the last time I’d come down to the Shack was propped behind the counter.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
