lucky break

While a fleet of dedicated gamma-ray telescopes is the best option for detecting gamma rays from a nearby supernova, a lucky break with Fermi would be even better.

But Trump got another big lucky break here, not from the district court — Tanya Chutkan is a no-nonsense federal judge who has moved the case briskly — but from the U.S.

That was a lucky break for Walz, who bumbled his way through an explanation of the China discrepancy, pleading that he is a “knucklehead” who gets “caught up in the rhetoric.”

A young musician whose lucky break came when talent show producers found an online video of him playing the piano at a shopping centre is dreaming of a big future.

Another lucky break would be finding a fragment of the lunar mantle, gouged from a depth of tens of kilometers.