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devil's own luck

NOUN

bad luck

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adversity hard time hardship misfortune setback tragedy

WEAK

bad break blow hard cheese hard luck ill luck mischance raw deal reverse rotten luck tough break tough luck

Antonyms

STRONGEST

advantage blessing boon favor success

Example Sentences

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You've got the devil's own luck, Deacon, that's what you've got.

From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by Henley, William Ernest

I always had the devil's own luck about things, you know.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

Well, if that ain't the devil's own luck!

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

Oh," answered Mellish, "it's a boy—a stranger—who is having the devil's own luck at the start.

From The Face and the Mask by Barr, Robert

They had what I can describe only as the devil's own luck.

From An Amiable Charlatan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)