luck of the devil

Idioms

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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luck of the devil

I've had the luck of the devil lately though,—everything I've touched has gone wrong.

From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

War was part chance, part common sense, part the pluck and luck of the devil.

From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker

He had had the luck of the devil.

From The Lost Road by Richard Harding Davis

And the luck of the devil is loose over all, While my trousers hang lonely and dark on the wall!

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

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