luck of the devil

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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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How to use luck of the devil in a sentence

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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.
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He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.
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G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.
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I cannot believe that a good God would create or tolerate a Devil, nor that he would allow the Devil to tempt man.
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