luck out
Meaning: To have unexpected good luck.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “We lucked out and found a table by the window.”
Category: Daily Life
Origin: American English from the mid-20th century. Oddly, in military slang of the 1940s it first meant the opposite, to run out of luck; the positive sense won out.
Other ways to say this
- German: Schwein haben — literally: To have pig
- Czech: Mít kliku — literally: To have a door handle
- English: lead a charmed life
More idioms — Daily Life
- put in one's two cents — To give one's opinion, whether or not it was asked for.
- crunch time — The decisive moment, when there is no more time left.
- get things back on track — To bring a situation back under control after it has gone wrong.
- be in for a rude awakening — To be about to discover an unpleasant truth.
- carry coals to Newcastle — To do something completely unnecessary.
- hunky-dory — Perfectly fine.
More English idioms
- the heart of the matter — The most important part of an issue.
- play cat and mouse — To toy with someone one has power over.
- blow me down — An exclamation of complete surprise.
- be over the moon — Absolutely delighted.
- the morning after the night before — A hangover, and the regret that comes with it.
- rub salt in the wound — To make someone's pain or humiliation worse.