Idiom
devil's luck
Meaning
astounding good luck.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He has the devil's luck when playing cards.”
“She missed her train, but then found a wallet full of cash, which is just typical devil's luck.”
“Despite the catastrophic failure of the expedition, he survived the storm with the sort of devil's luck that defies all logical explanation.”
Examples
simple
“He has the devil's luck when playing cards.”
contextual
“She missed her train, but then found a wallet full of cash, which is just typical devil's luck.”
complex
“Despite the catastrophic failure of the expedition, he survived the storm with the sort of devil's luck that defies all logical explanation.”
Origin
People who were always lucky were once thought to have to have made a pact with the Devil.
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