Idiom
bad iron
Meaning
bad luck.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I lost my keys again, it is just bad iron.”
“The car broke down on the way to the interview, which felt like bad iron.”
“After the storm destroyed his crops and his barn caught fire, the farmer could only conclude that he was suffering from a run of bad iron.”
Examples
simple
“I lost my keys again, it is just bad iron.”
contextual
“The car broke down on the way to the interview, which felt like bad iron.”
complex
“After the storm destroyed his crops and his barn caught fire, the farmer could only conclude that he was suffering from a run of bad iron.”
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