luck of the devil
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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 lotterythat's the luck of the Irish. These superstitious attributions of good fortune date from the first half of the 1900s.
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