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luck of the devil

 
Idioms: luck of the devil

Also, luck of the Irish. Extraordinarily good fortune, as in You've the luck of the devil--that ball landed just on the line, or Winning the lottery--that's the luck of the Irish. These superstitious attributions of good fortune date from the first half of the 1900s.


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Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more