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[edit] WOTD – 13 February 2015

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Verb

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luck out (third-person singular simple present lucks out, present participle lucking out, simple past and past participle lucked out)

1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To experience great luck; to be extremely fortunate or lucky. I lucked out and got the last two tickets to the big show.
2. (colloquial, idiomatic) To experience a misfortune; to be unlucky.
   • 2011, Lee Child, The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel‎[1], Dell, →ISBN, page 168:The baby brother was no oil painting. He had lucked out with the genetic lottery. […] He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

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• luck in

Translations

[edit] to experience great luck

Chinese: Mandarin: (please verify) 三生有幸 (zh) (sānshēngyǒuxìng) Czech: mít štěstí impf, mít kliku impf Finnish: onnistaa (fi), käydä onni, käydä tuuri, olla onnea French: avoir le cul bordé de nouilles (fr) (vulgar) Georgian: გაუმართლებს (gaumartlebs), ბედი გაუღიმებს (bedi gauɣimebs) German: Schwein haben (de) Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: tener suerte, tener un golpe de suerte, tuve suerte ("I lucked out") Swedish: ha tur

Further reading

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• Mark Liberman (8 October 2011), “Lucking out”, in Language Log

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