lucky duckling
Synonym of lucky duck.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“You won the prize again, you lucky duckling.”
“She found a cheap apartment in the city center, so we told her she was a lucky duckling.”
“Despite missing the final train, he arrived just as the doors opened, proving himself to be quite the lucky duckling.”
From the earlier idiom *lucky duck*, extended by the addition of the diminutive suffix to produce a rhyming variation.
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lucky break
A stroke of luck; a fortunate event, particularly of the sort that propels one to success, fame, etc.
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lucky dip
A selection solely at random.
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lucky dog
Someone with astounding good luck.
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lucky star
Something that appears to give a person luck
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strike it lucky
To have unexpected good fortune.
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thank one's lucky stars
To be grateful, feel oneself fortunate, consider oneself lucky (especially in avoiding some calamity).
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ugly duckling
A young person who is ugly, but who is expected to become beautiful or handsome as they mature.
Last updated August 10, 2026