IdiomDaily Life
English
Englishluck out
Meaning: To have unexpected good luck.
Example: “We lucked out and found a table by the window.”
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
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