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luck of the devil



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, luck of the Irish . Extraordinarily good fortune, as in You've the luck of the devil—that ball landed just on the line , or Winning the lottery—that's the luck of the Irish . These superstitious attributions of good fortune date from the first half of the 1900s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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