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happy-go-lucky

[ hap-ee-goh-luhk-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
Synonyms: insouciant, lighthearted, blithe, heedless, carefree

happy-go-lucky

First recorded in 1665–75

Well, about as happy-go-lucky a track as a track about the suffocating pressures of marriage and family can be.

I am pretty happy-go-lucky in general, so that is also a similarity.

He played Brandt, the happy-go-lucky assistant/boy Friday to millionaire Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston).

Meredith Kercher, a bright and beautiful 21-year-old from Leeds, was enjoying the happy-go-lucky life of an exchange student.

“She was seemingly a happy-go-lucky girl,” the neighbor told The Daily Beast.

On all other points it becomes a fair war risk to presume upon their happy-go-lucky behaviour.

They are not all French—these happy-go-lucky fellows, who live for the day and let the morrow slide.

It is administered in a happy-go-lucky manner, which amuses at the same time that it annoys.

At the other end of the social scale in this world of workers is the happy-go-lucky family.

And so on, till there were never such comfortable, easy-going, happy-go-lucky people in the world.

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