rotten luck
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What rotten luck for you that “The Grapes of Wrath” should not only have come out be- fore your book was submitted but should have so swept the country!
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
Small businesses of long standing, and families who went into debt to launch, say, restaurants or bars or bakeries just before the pandemic, now have blighted futures — the caprice of rotten luck.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2022
The kind that makes up for so many also-ran seasons — some self-inflicted, some just rotten luck.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
Committed to staying healthier this season, Davis has suffered some rotten luck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
“It’s not my fault you’re a Spare. Or that you invoked the impossible task. It was rotten luck, but don’t take it out on me!”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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