story of my life, the

1. What typically happens to me, as in I rushed through the meeting to get to the airport, and then the plane was three hours late—that's the story of my life. This hyperbolic expression is generally used ruefully to describe some mishap or misfortune. [Mid-1900s]

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“Story of my life!!! The possibilities are endless!!” someone else said.

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“This show is the story of my life,” the designer said inside his Paris atelier during an interview with The Associated Press.

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“But I think it may have amounted to a sin against myself, or a sin against my life, or — more accurately yet — a sin against the true story of my life, the one I can never tell and never know.”

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In "The Story of My Life" the same quality asserts itself on every page in the most unpleasant manner.

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I have thought about it time and time again, and have come to the conclusion to write a story of my life, the good and the bad, and if the story will be a help, and check some one that's just going wrong, set him thinking, and point him on the right road, praise God!

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