Idiom
dumb luck
Meaning
pure chance; luck
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I won the game by pure dumb luck.”
“He had no idea how to fix the engine, but through sheer dumb luck, he turned the right screw and it started.”
“While critics attributed the young artist's sudden rise to careful planning, she knew her success was largely a matter of dumb luck.”
Examples
simple
“I won the game by pure dumb luck.”
contextual
“He had no idea how to fix the engine, but through sheer dumb luck, he turned the right screw and it started.”
complex
“While critics attributed the young artist's sudden rise to careful planning, she knew her success was largely a matter of dumb luck.”
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