trust to luck

Once Otis was installed as one of its masters, he invoked his ideal Angelenos: “Los Angeles wants no dudes, loafers, and paupers; people who have no means and trust to luck.”

After that, he knew, to some extent he had to trust to luck.

Already several of the rabbits were asleep, crouched uneasily between the thick stems, aware of the chance of danger but too tired to do more than trust to luck.

But men have made the same mistake more than once—left the whole business out of account, or been content to trust to luck and the fortune of war.

‘Trust to luck again! It nearly failed us last time, but it didn’t quite. A steady pace for a few more miles, and then a rest.’