to run out of luck

  • 1run out — phr verb Run out is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑battery, ↑food, ↑funding, ↑lease, ↑licence, ↑luck, ↑patience, ↑pen, ↑supply, ↑term, ↑time, ↑warrant …

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  • 2run out — {v.} 1a. To come to an end; be used up. * /Jerry almost got across the brook on the slippery stones but his luck ran out and he slipped and fell./ * /We d better do our Christmas shopping; time is running out./ Syn.: GIVE OUT(5). 1b. To use all… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 3run out — {v.} 1a. To come to an end; be used up. * /Jerry almost got across the brook on the slippery stones but his luck ran out and he slipped and fell./ * /We d better do our Christmas shopping; time is running out./ Syn.: GIVE OUT(5). 1b. To use all… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 4run\ out — v 1a. To come to an end; be used up. Jerry almost got across the brook on the slippery stones but his luck ran out and he slipped and fell. We d better do our Christmas shopping; time is running out. Syn.: give out(5) 1b. To use all of the… …

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  • 5Luck-out — run out of luck; have bad luck …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 6luck — /lʌk / (say luk) noun 1. that which happens to a person, either good or bad, as if by chance, in the course of events: to have good luck. 2. good fortune; advantage or success considered as the result of chance: to wish someone luck. –phrase 3.… …

  • 7luck-out — v. have bad luck; to run out of luck (Slang) v. (Slang) have good luck; succeed by total luck; be lucky in an unexpected manner (e.g.: I was worried because I was not prepared to give a report at the management meeting, but I lucked out because… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 8luck out — verb a) To experience great luck; to be extremely fortunate or lucky. I lucked out and got the last two tickets to the big show. b) To have run out of luck. I lucked out and failed to get the tickets …

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  • 9luck-out — Australian Slang run out of luck; have bad luck …

    English dialects glossary

  • 10run — [run] vi. ran or Dial. run, run, running [altered (with vowel prob. infl. by pp.) < ME rinnen, rennen < ON & OE: ON rinna, to flow, run, renna, to cause to run (< Gmc * rannjan); OE rinnan, iornan: both < Gmc * renwo < IE base * er …

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