a hard-luck story

  • 11Hard Luck Hero — Infobox Film name = Hard Luck Hero caption = imdb rating = director = Sabu producer = Tarō Nagamatsuya Satoru Ogura Arishige Shimomura Masahiko Tan Koji Yoshizawa writer = Sabu starring = Sakamoto Masayuki Nagano Hiroshi Inohara Yoshihiko Morita… …

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  • 12hard-luck — adj. Hard luck is used with these nouns: ↑story …

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  • 13Hardboiled & Hard Luck (novel) — Infobox Book | name = Hardboiled Hard Luck title orig = translator = Michael Emmerich image caption = US edition Cover author = Banana Yoshimoto illustrator = cover artist = country = Japan language = Japanese series = genre = Novel publisher =… …

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  • 14luck — luck1 W3S2 [lʌk] n [U] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(success)¦ 2 bad luck 3¦(chance)¦ 4 with (any) luck/with a bit of luck 5 wish somebody (the best of) luck 6 good luck/best of luck 7 good luck to somebody 8 any luck?/no luck? 9 be in luck …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 15luck — 1 noun (U) 1 GOOD FORTUNE something good that happens by chance: have luck (with sth): Did you have any luck with the job application? | You re not having much luck today, are you? | Good luck!/Best of luck!: Good luck tomorrow in the exam! |… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 16hard — 1 adjective FIRM TO TOUCH 1 firm and stiff, and difficult to press down, break, or cut: Diamond is the hardest substance known to man. | The plums are much too hard to be eaten now. | The chairs in the waiting room felt hard and uncomfortable.… …

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  • 17story — / stO:ri/ noun (C) 1 FOR ENTERTAINMENT a description of how something happened, that is intended to entertain people, and may be true or imaginary: the story of Cinderella | Don t be frightened, Connie it s only a story. (=it is imaginary) (+… …

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  • 18story — sto|ry W2S2 [ˈsto:ri] n plural stories ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(for entertainment)¦ 2¦(news)¦ 3¦(events)¦ 4¦(excuse)¦ 5¦(history)¦ 6¦(building)¦ 7¦(of a film/play etc)¦ 8 it s the same story here …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19story — noun 1 account of events/people, true or invented ADJECTIVE ▪ true ▪ plausible ▪ false, made up ▪ She told the police a false story about being attacked. ▪ …

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  • 20story — I n. tale 1) to narrate, tell a story 2) to carry, circulate, print, run a story (all the newspapers carried the story about the fire) 3) to edit; rewrite; write a story 4) to concoct, fabricate, invent, make up a story 5) to change, revise;… …

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