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  • 1Bad Luck Blackie — is a M.G.M cartoon directed by Tex Avery. It was released on January 22, 1944. ynopsisA little cat is being mercilessly tormented by a mean bulldog until one day he meets a black cat who offers a bad luck service. Whenever the little cat blows a… …

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  • 2bad luck on somebody — bad, hard, etc. luck (on sb) idiom used to express sympathy for sb • Bad luck, Helen, you played very well. • It s hard luck on him that he wasn t chosen. • What rotten luck it had to happen now! Main entry …

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  • 3bad luck — noun 1. an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑misfortune, ↑tough luck, ↑ill luck • Ant: ↑good luck, ↑good fortune (for: ↑ …

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  • 4Bad Luck and Trouble — infobox Book | name = Bad Luck and Trouble title orig = translator = image caption = | author = Lee Child country = United States language = English series = Jack Reacher genre = Thriller novel release date = 2007 media type = Print (Hardcover,… …

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  • 5Bad Luck — (aka Cockeyed Luck, Zezowate Szczęście, 1960)    One of the landmarks of the Polish School, Andrzej Munk s merciless satire of opportunism and bureaucracy, scripted by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński. Set between the 1930s and the 1950s, the film… …

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  • 6see a pin and pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you’ll have all the day — Similarly extolling the virtues of thrift in small matters is 1668 S. PEPYS Diary 2 Jan. (1976) IX. 7 The King answered to it with great indifferency. Sir W. Coventry answered: ‘I see your Majesty doth not remember the old English proverb, “He… …

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  • 7luck — n. success good fortune 1) to bring luck 2) to try one s luck (at smt.) 3) to press, push one s luck 4) pure, sheer luck 5) beginner s luck 6) one s luck improves, turns; runs out 7) a bit, stroke of luck 8) luck at, in (luck at gambling) …

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  • 8bad break — UK US noun [countable] [singular bad break plural bad breaks] computing a hyphen in the wrong place in a word, sometimes caused by software that puts hyphens in words automatically …

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  • 9that's life — that is the way life goes, c est la vie    Whenever Maurice has bad luck, he says, Ah, that s life …

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  • 10luck — 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 …

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