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Also, run of bad luck . A continued spell of good (or bad) fortune, as in The builder had a run of luck with day after day of good weather , or Nothing was going right; he was having a long run of bad luck . Originally used mainly in games of chance, this idiom was first recorded in 1782, but the use of run for a continued spell of something dates from the late 1600s.Advertisement
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