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luck in

Verb

Meaning

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

(informal, US, Canada, Australia) To experience good luck; to be fortunate or lucky.

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I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. Charles Kuralt

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. Alfred Hitchcock

Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils. Cassandra Clare

When you're out of luck in the coffin making business, no one dies. Lebanese Proverb

Good luck in business is like the froth on an ox's face. Japanese Proverb

Luck in the sky and brains in the ground. Arabic Proverb

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