get lucky
Meaning: To succeed in having a sexual encounter.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “He spent the whole night buying drinks, hoping to get lucky.”
Category: Daily Life
Origin: American slang recorded from the 1960s (the Oxford English Dictionary's earliest example is from 1966): finding a willing partner is treated as a stroke of good fortune.
Equivalents in other languages
- French: tremper son biscuit — literally: to dip one's biscuit
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