Good luck and bad luck
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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- a blessing in disguise idiom
- align
- bad omen
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be bad luck on someone idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- be in/out of luck idiom
- be just as well idiom
- be laughing idiom
- beginner's luck
- best
- blessed
- blessedly
- blessing
- break
- break a leg idiom
- catch
- catch a break idiom
- charmed
- crossed
- day
- deal someone a hand
- draw/get the short straw idiom
- fairy godmother
- fateful
- fatefully
- favoured
- foot
- for (good) luck idiom
- for luck idiom
- foredoomed
- fortunate
- fortunate in something/doing something
- fortunately
- fortune
- fortune cookie
- fortune smiles on someone idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- godsend
- good
- good fortune
- grace
- hapless
- haplessly
- happenstance
- happily
- happy
- happy coincidence
- hard
- hard luck! idiom
- have nine lives idiom
- have the fortune to do something
- heaven-sent
- hoodoo
- in the lap of the gods idiom
- in the right place at the right time idiom
- in the wrong place at the wrong time idiom
- jammy
- jinx
- knock
- knock on wood idiom
- land on your feet idiom
- lap
- laugh
- luck
- luck out phrasal verb
- luckily
- luckless
- lucky
- malediction
- may the best man/person win! idiom
- merciful
- mercifully
- mercy
- miracle
- miracle worker
- misadventure
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- nine
- not be someone's day idiom
- regrettable
- regrettably
- right
- serendipitously
- serendipity
- shame
- short
- Sod's law
- something
- star-crossed
- stick
- streak
- strike
- strike it lucky idiom
- stroke
- talismanic
- the best of British (luck) idiom
- the stars align idiom
- there but for the grace of God (go I) idiom
- thing
- through no fault of your own
- touch
- touch wood idiom
- tough
- unfortunate
- unfortunately
- unluckily
- unlucky
- voodoo
- well
- with any luck idiom
- wrong
- your luck's in! idiom
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