Idiom
lucky star
Meaning
Something that appears to give a person luck
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She thanks her lucky star for finding such a good job.”
“He narrowly avoided the accident and felt he had a lucky star watching over him.”
“The explorer often credited his lucky star for guiding him safely through the treacherous mountain pass during the storm.”
Examples
simple
“She thanks her lucky star for finding such a good job.”
contextual
“He narrowly avoided the accident and felt he had a lucky star watching over him.”
complex
“The explorer often credited his lucky star for guiding him safely through the treacherous mountain pass during the storm.”
Origin
From the ancient belief that the position and movement of stars exerted a direct influence on human lives and fortunes. The term persists as a remnant of astrological determinism, wherein an individual's success was attributed to the presence of a particularly auspicious celestial body.
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