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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
luck
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chance...luck
▪ We decided not to chance our luck in the storm.
good luck
▪ I need a bit of good luck.
piece of luck/good fortune
▪ It really was an extraordinary piece of luck.
pot luck
▪ We hadn’t booked a hotel so we had to take pot luck.
pure chance/luck
▪ He had discovered the truth by pure chance.
rotten luck
▪ What rotten luck!
run of good/bad luck
▪ Losing my job was the start of a run of bad luck that year.
the best of luck
▪ We wish him the best of luck with this venture.
trust to luck
▪ I’ll just have to trust to luck that it works out okay.
weather/luck holds (out) (=continues to be good)
▪ If our luck holds, we could reach the final.
wished...luck
▪ He shook my hand and wished me luck.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
▪ You're a bad agent and you're worse luck.
▪ They believe it is bad luck.
▪ Unfortunately, the gents had bad luck.
▪ About their men and about their bad luck in having been born female.
▪ At 2-1 up, Team Cotswold played it steady and Chelmsford were plagued with bad luck on net cords and injuries.
▪ He confesses that he had the bad luck to cross both Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush.
▪ Dying in my own story. Bad luck, that.
▪ People take something, then have all this bad luck.
good
▪ Why does a black cat bring good luck?
▪ Contrary to all that gar-bage about being a jinx, she brought me nothing but good luck.
▪ To ensure good luck, your daughter should leave home by the front door, stepping out with her right foot first.
▪ Ciao, Ben. Good luck with Aktion Direkt - and don't forget that you're not the only climber!
▪ Anyway, good-by and good luck to you.
▪ It's best to ring the organisers for start times, directions and more detailed information. Good luck!
▪ Part of the tale is mere good luck, a boon that even this star-crossed conflict enjoys now and then.
great
▪ A new season, a new League and a great bit of luck.
▪ History had made the Saigormais great believers in luck.
▪ The expedition had great luck, and came back with various specimens.
hard
▪ Blown engines, driveshaft failures, the 1,500 mile long route is littered with hard luck stories.
▪ My platoon turned out to be the hard-luck platoon.
▪ If you don't then like the package, or find it doesn't fulfil one of your requirements, hard luck.
▪ Whether it was the rent or just hard luck, many businesses at the mall also cleared out.
▪ Can't have that, can we, not on top of all your other hard luck.
▪ If you don't like it then hard luck!
▪ Either the union is strong enough and can stand it, or it can t, and hard luck.
▪ There's the same familiar chords, beefed-up arrangements and hard luck stories, but not a lot of conviction.
ill
▪ You're a bad agent and you're worse luck.
▪ Nearly all gone now, worse luck, and the guv'nor's arrived to read the riot act.
▪ You go up there with the wrong attitude and come out with worse luck than you had before.
▪ I have to go to secretarial school, worse luck.
▪ Mrs Allen has meanwhile met the Tilneys, and Catherine thinks her day one of ill luck.
▪ Sarah joked dolefully that she and William attracted all the ill luck in the clan.
▪ He felt he probably had the worst luck of anyone he knew.
little
▪ Specialist A little luck then comes your way.
▪ Brilliant detective work with a little luck tossed in to catch the savvy killer.
▪ All they'd needed was a little luck, and he had refused to help.
▪ It just needs a little luck to bring it out.
▪ With a little bit of luck he could still make an impact in an important event.
▪ He was not successful then, so we can only hope he has just as little luck with his latest scheme.
▪ With Hencke and a little luck anything would still be possible.
pure
▪ It was pure luck, my seeing that notice of your concert.
▪ Of the pure luck, or destiny, involved.
rotten
▪ She must have caught her heel and tripped, just rotten bad luck.
▪ It's rotten, rotten luck.
▪ A time to die Rotten luck.
sheer
▪ By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
▪ He made it through sheer luck and by attaching himself to one guy after another and then stepping over them.
▪ So I guessed right; sheer luck.
▪ She flung out her hands and caught the edge of the stone by sheer luck.
▪ Through sheer good luck, or bad luck, depending on whether you were Molly or the fish, the spear struck home.
▪ What sheer bad luck to meet a literary policeman when he was trying to do something nefarious but necessary.
▪ There were lots of near misses: some great saves from both keepers, and sheer bad luck.
tough
▪ Crusaders did have tough luck seconds before the final whistle when a desperation drive by Jim Gardiner bounced off the crossbar.
▪ If you got stuck behind a farmer hauling a load of hay with a Model -, that was your tough luck.
▪ If you follow a small-market team or live a certain distance away, tough luck.
▪ Five, six, seven. Tough luck, buddy.
well
▪ Ah well ... better luck next year.
▪ In April 1911, he seemingly had better luck.
▪ Our bike was still there -- which was better luck than we'd had at the slots.
▪ Movies have had better luck with the subject, since it does afford plenty to watch.
▪ The Barnsley keeper, Paul Whitehead had much better luck at his end.
▪ James had no better luck in securing the acquiescence of the Anglican gentry.
▪ Back to the West Indies with it, and better luck next time.
■ NOUN
pot
▪ Excepting share a yacht or pot luck boats, those who wish to use them carry them.
▪ Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.
▪ Squad Dilemma; Pot luck again.
story
▪ Blown engines, driveshaft failures, the 1,500 mile long route is littered with hard luck stories.
▪ There's the same familiar chords, beefed-up arrangements and hard luck stories, but not a lot of conviction.
■ VERB
believe
▪ I couldn't believe my luck.
▪ He could hardly believe his luck.
▪ I sometimes could not believe my good luck, and was grateful for it.
▪ They believe it is bad luck.
▪ Joe could hardly believe his luck to have returned home in such good shape.
▪ Voeller could not believe his luck and had the simple task of tapping the ball into an empty goal.
▪ I believed it brought me luck.
bring
▪ Why does a black cat bring good luck?
▪ It also brings with it bad luck and a grotesque litany of deaths.
▪ This is said to bring good luck.
▪ I believed it brought me luck.
▪ Is it because such a meeting would bring bad luck or is there another reason?
▪ Feng shui holds that the southwest corner of the bedroom is the most important in bringing luck and good chi for relationships.
▪ It may have been a traditional marriage, gift, given to couples to bring them good luck.
change
▪ But he told himself: you can always change luck back again.
▪ Clearly Quinn, just one League goal this season, is hoping Sheron's arrival will change his luck, too.
need
▪ Whatever our endeavour, we need a measure of luck, the kiss of the capricious lady fortune.
▪ Any U.S. city trying to control development needs luck.
▪ What he needed was a bit of luck on the roll.
▪ It just needs a little luck to bring it out.
▪ All they'd needed was a little luck, and he had refused to help.
▪ We were three shots ahead, so perhaps Tom didn't need that much luck this time.
▪ Oh, Mum, I need all that luck you wished me.
push
▪ If the story did turn out to be true, though, I think he might be pushing his luck.
▪ He decided to push his luck.
▪ Just make sure that you don't push your luck too far.
▪ However we pushed our luck and took Molly in, with no protests whatsoever.
▪ Mallachy, indeed, was inclined to push his luck with Rory.
▪ Now above all times, she felt, was not the time to push her luck.
▪ Twelve months later the Captain of Sea Rover pushed his luck once too often.
▪ Sunday 6 November I knew I shouldn't have pushed my culinary luck.
run
▪ The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million.
▪ Others just continued borrowing until they ran out of luck or excuses.
▪ Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck.
try
▪ So why not try your luck?
▪ He squatted down with a stick to try his luck.
▪ Without a pub to be seen for miles we decided to try our luck in the bar of the hilton.
▪ Riker and I were chosen to try our luck again.
▪ Roll up! Try your luck at the fairest, squarest state lottery of them all!
▪ Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he'd try his luck.
▪ Why not try your luck and help others at the same time?
wish
▪ They then shook hands and delivered warm, almost passionate, hugs as they wished each other luck.
▪ But had we sat down with her, we would have wished her good luck.
▪ Well, I wish you luck.
▪ Everyone wished each other good luck and Mould, Matron and Endill headed off to the library.
▪ She wishes me luck, opens the door to the bathroom, and disappears into a cloud of steam.
▪ Yet at the start of the day both sides had wished each other luck.
▪ The program also features a neat video clip of Norman introducing the game and wishing players good luck.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beginner's luck
dumb luck
▪ The cleanup of the oil spill was helped by good weather and a lot of dumb luck.
good luck
▪ And finally good luck to Woodstock-based football manager Jim Smith the on Sunday.
▪ I sometimes could not believe my good luck, and was grateful for it.
▪ I want to know about good luck and bad luck.
▪ If they start talking high teens, good luck to them.
▪ Mac users are wishing Steve Jobs and company good luck.
▪ There's been good luck though, for Steve Bennett of Ross on Wye.
▪ Those for Diem were red, which signified good luck, and those for Bao Dai green, the color of misfortune.
▪ Why does a black cat bring good luck?
good luck to him/them etc
▪ All I say is: good luck to him.
▪ And all good luck to him.
▪ Big women can be as fit as anyone else and if so, good luck to them.
▪ If they start talking high teens, good luck to them.
▪ In which case, good luck to them both.
hard luck
▪ Blown engines, driveshaft failures, the 1,500 mile long route is littered with hard luck stories.
▪ Can't have that, can we, not on top of all your other hard luck.
▪ Either the union is strong enough and can stand it, or it can t, and hard luck.
▪ If you don't like it then hard luck!
▪ If you don't then like the package, or find it doesn't fulfil one of your requirements, hard luck.
▪ Just one hard luck thing after another.
▪ There's the same familiar chords, beefed-up arrangements and hard luck stories, but not a lot of conviction.
▪ Whether it was the rent or just hard luck, many businesses at the mall also cleared out.
knowing my luck
push your luck/push it
sheer luck/happiness/stupidity etc
▪ By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
▪ He made it through sheer luck and by attaching himself to one guy after another and then stepping over them.
▪ She flung out her hands and caught the edge of the stone by sheer luck.
▪ So I guessed right; sheer luck.
▪ Would anybody see if I just nudged them over the edge for their sheer stupidity?
stroke of luck/fortune
▪ But by a remarkable stroke of fortune we were saved from falling into error.
▪ But, in a strange stroke of luck, this fall occurred as Maximilian and his armies were approaching Ensisheim.
▪ I also had a stroke of luck when a Jehovah's Witness called at the door earlier.
▪ That, it turned out, was a stroke of luck.
▪ The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now, and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty.
▪ Then I had a stroke of luck.
▪ True enough, you married him, and what a happy stroke of fortune for the candidate.
take pot luck
▪ Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.
tough luck!
try your luck
▪ Stern says he is tempted to try his luck as a candidate for mayor.
▪ But the next time Berger tried his luck, it produced a spectacular dividend.
▪ Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he'd try his luck.
▪ He squatted down with a stick to try his luck.
▪ Ibn Battuta was always one to try his luck.
▪ Riker and I were chosen to try our luck again.
▪ So why not try your luck?
▪ Without a pub to be seen for miles we decided to try our luck in the bar of the hilton.
▪ You can try your luck in Scheffau, and even compete for a bronze, silver or gold medal.
worse luck
▪ Bad luck for Venus, worse luck for the 12,000 fans, but hey, what can you do?
▪ I have to go to secretarial school, worse luck.
▪ Nearly all gone now, worse luck, and the guv'nor's arrived to read the riot act.
▪ You're a bad agent and you're worse luck.
▪ You go up there with the wrong attitude and come out with worse luck than you had before.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Please let it be him,'' said Sara, keeping her fingers crossed for luck.
▪ Dice is a game of luck.
▪ Did you have any luck with the job application?
▪ I found the place purely by luck.
▪ I got the right answer, but it was sheer luck.
▪ If luck was on our side, the garage would have delivered our car by now.
▪ If his luck held, no one would notice he had escaped for at least two hours.
▪ The company knew that their run of good luck would not last forever.
▪ With any luck we should reach the coast before it gets dark.
▪ You'll need plenty of luck if you're hoping to succeed in the music business.
▪ You're not having much luck today, are you?
▪ You never know who you'll get as a roommate. It's just a matter of luck.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For once, my luck was holding well.
▪ I had the feeling my luck had changed for the better.
▪ In the meantime, good luck, Raul.
▪ It may still avoid one, by luck or by a decisive further tightening now.
▪ Mr Li could with a little luck look forward to another 20 years of political life.
▪ None the less, Williams has had his share of bad luck and trouble.
▪ People milled past, skirting me as though I were bad luck.
▪ This time, luck seemed to be with me.
II.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beginner's luck
dumb luck
▪ The cleanup of the oil spill was helped by good weather and a lot of dumb luck.
good luck
▪ And finally good luck to Woodstock-based football manager Jim Smith the on Sunday.
▪ I sometimes could not believe my good luck, and was grateful for it.
▪ I want to know about good luck and bad luck.
▪ If they start talking high teens, good luck to them.
▪ Mac users are wishing Steve Jobs and company good luck.
▪ There's been good luck though, for Steve Bennett of Ross on Wye.
▪ Those for Diem were red, which signified good luck, and those for Bao Dai green, the color of misfortune.
▪ Why does a black cat bring good luck?
good luck to him/them etc
▪ All I say is: good luck to him.
▪ And all good luck to him.
▪ Big women can be as fit as anyone else and if so, good luck to them.
▪ If they start talking high teens, good luck to them.
▪ In which case, good luck to them both.
hard luck
▪ Blown engines, driveshaft failures, the 1,500 mile long route is littered with hard luck stories.
▪ Can't have that, can we, not on top of all your other hard luck.
▪ Either the union is strong enough and can stand it, or it can t, and hard luck.
▪ If you don't like it then hard luck!
▪ If you don't then like the package, or find it doesn't fulfil one of your requirements, hard luck.
▪ Just one hard luck thing after another.
▪ There's the same familiar chords, beefed-up arrangements and hard luck stories, but not a lot of conviction.
▪ Whether it was the rent or just hard luck, many businesses at the mall also cleared out.
sheer luck/happiness/stupidity etc
▪ By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
▪ He made it through sheer luck and by attaching himself to one guy after another and then stepping over them.
▪ She flung out her hands and caught the edge of the stone by sheer luck.
▪ So I guessed right; sheer luck.
▪ Would anybody see if I just nudged them over the edge for their sheer stupidity?
stroke of luck/fortune
▪ But by a remarkable stroke of fortune we were saved from falling into error.
▪ But, in a strange stroke of luck, this fall occurred as Maximilian and his armies were approaching Ensisheim.
▪ I also had a stroke of luck when a Jehovah's Witness called at the door earlier.
▪ That, it turned out, was a stroke of luck.
▪ The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now, and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty.
▪ Then I had a stroke of luck.
▪ True enough, you married him, and what a happy stroke of fortune for the candidate.
take pot luck
▪ Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.
tough luck!
worse luck
▪ Bad luck for Venus, worse luck for the 12,000 fans, but hey, what can you do?
▪ I have to go to secretarial school, worse luck.
▪ Nearly all gone now, worse luck, and the guv'nor's arrived to read the riot act.
▪ You're a bad agent and you're worse luck.
▪ You go up there with the wrong attitude and come out with worse luck than you had before.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luck

Luck \Luck\, n. [Akin to D. luk, geluk, G. gl["u]ck, Icel. lukka, Sw. lycka, Dan. lykke, and perh. to G. locken to entice. Cf. 3d Gleck.] That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck; as, luck is better than skill; a stroke of luck.

If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds.
--Shak.

Luck penny, a small sum given back for luck to one who pays money. [Prov. Eng.]

To be in luck, to receive some good, or to meet with some success, in an unexpected manner, or as the result of circumstances beyond one's control; to be fortunate.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
luck

late 15c. from early Middle Dutch luc, shortening of gheluc "happiness, good fortune," of unknown origin. It has cognates in Dutch geluk, Middle High German g(e)lücke, German Glück "fortune, good luck." Perhaps first borrowed in English as a gambling term. To be down on (one's) luck is from 1832; to be in luck is from 1900; to push (one's) luck is from 191

  1. Good luck as a salutation to one setting off to do something is from 1805. Expression better luck next time attested from 180

  2. \n\nA gentleman was lately walking through St Giles's, where a levelling citizen attempting to pick his pocket of a handkerchief, which the gentleman caught in time, and secured, observing to the fellow, that he had missed his aim, the latter, with perfect sang-froid, answered, "better luck next time master."Â

    [“Monthly Mirror,” London, 1802]

luck

by 1945, from luck (n.). To luck out "succeed through luck" is American English colloquial, attested by 1946; to luck into (something good) is from 1944. However, lukken was a verb in Middle English (mid-15c.) meaning "to happen, chance;" also, "happen fortunately."

Wiktionary
luck

n. 1 Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence. 2 A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success. 3 success vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To succeed by chance. 2 (context intransitive English) To rely on luck. 3 (context transitive English) To carry out relying on luck.

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WordNet
luck

  1. n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, lot, circumstances, portion]

  2. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn: fortune, chance, hazard]

  3. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand" [syn: fortune]

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Gazetteer
Luck, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 1210
Housing Units (2000): 572
Land area (2000): 1.849465 sq. miles (4.790091 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.593145 sq. miles (1.536238 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.442610 sq. miles (6.326329 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46200
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.570499 N, 92.474760 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54853
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Luck, WI
Luck
Wikipedia
Lück

The name Lück may refer to:

  • Hans-Joachim Lück (born 1953), German rower
  • Heidi Lück (born 1943), German politician
  • Ingolf Lück (born 1958), German actor and comedian
  • Petra Kusch-Lück (born 1948), German host, entertainer, dancer and singer.
  • Siegfried Lück, retired East German slalom canoeist competing from the late 1950s to the late 1960s
  • Thomas Lück (born 1981), German sprint canoer
  • Wolfgang Lück (born 1957), German mathematician
Luck (short story)

"Luck" is an 1886 short story by Mark Twain which was first published in 1891 in Harper's Magazine. It was subsequently reprinted in 1892 in the anthology Merry Tales; the first British publication was in 1900, in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. It is one of Twain's more neglected stories, and received little critical attention upon its publication.

Luck (EP)

Luck is a rare EP by New Zealand band Minuit before they signed to the Tardus Music label.

"Aires", "The Boy With The Aubergine Hair" and "Sleepwalk (Claire)" (later called just "Claire") were all included on their debut album The 88.

Luck (disambiguation)

Luck is a chance happening.

Luck may also refer to:

Luck (Kent cricketer)

Luck (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer who made 3 known appearances in first-class cricket matches in 1793.

Luck (TV series)

Luck is an American dramatic television series created by David Milch and starring Dustin Hoffman. The pilot episode was directed by Michael Mann. The series premiered on January 29, 2012. HBO aired the first episode on December 11, 2011, as a preview. It was immediately renewed for a second season of 10 episodes, scheduled to air beginning in January 2013. However, the show was canceled on March 14, 2012 due to animal safety concerns. The first season's remaining episodes continued to air. The complete first season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 27, 2012.

Luck (Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers album)

Luck is the debut studio album by Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers. Recorded between 2009 and 2011 at Green Door Studios in Glasgow, the album was released in June 2011. The album was well-received, with the music described as "dark with a mischievous grin" and as having a "Mississippi-meets-Maryhill sound".

It was named "Album of the Week" by Vic Galloway on his BBC Radio Scotland show.

Luck (film)

Luck is a 2009 Indian action- thriller film directed and written by Soham Shah, and produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. The screenplay was adapted from a 2001 Spanish thriller film, Intacto. The leading roles were played by Mithun Chakraborty, debutant Shruti Haasan, Imran Khan and Sanjay Dutt; the other significant parts, and fellow members of the gang were played by Danny Denzongpa, Ravi Kishan and Chitrashi Rawat, prominent actors from the Indian film industry. The camera of the film was handled by Santosh Thundiyil, whilst composer duo Salim-Sulaiman recorded the musical score.

The film released to Indian audiences on 24 July 2009 & was critically panned.

Luck (surname)

Luck is a surname. For the people with the German family name spelled Lück, see Lück.

  • Luck (Kent cricketer), 18th-century English professional cricketer
  • Andrew Luck (born 1989), American football quarterback
  • Aubrey Luck (1900–1999), Australian politician
  • Babar Luck, English musician
  • Charles Luck (1886–?), British gymnast
  • Edward Luck, American U.N. adviser
  • Ethan Luck (born 1978), American musician
  • Frank Luck (born 1967), German bi-athlete
  • Gary E. Luck, American Army general
  • Isaac Luck (1817–1881), New Zealand architect
  • Jordan Luck (born c. 1961), New Zealand musician
  • Karin Luck, German rower
  • Karl-Heinz Luck (born 1945), German Nordic combined skier
  • Michael Luck, British computer scientist
  • Micheal Luck (born 1982), Australian rugby league player
  • Oliver Luck (born 1960), American professional football player and sports executive; father of Andrew Luck
  • Peter Luck (born 1944), Australian author, TV journalist, producer and presenter
  • Sophie Luck (born 1989), Australian actress
  • Tony Luck, Canadian politician
  • Hans von Luck (1911–1997), German World War II officer
Luck (song)

"Luck" is a song written by Zachary Barnett, David Rublin, Matthew Sanchez and James Shelley of American indie rock band American Authors, co-written with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman. The song was originally recorded for their debut extended play, American Authors, and appears as the third track on the EP. The track later appeared as the fourth track on their debut studio album Oh, What a Life. The song was released by Island Records in Canada as a one-track single on March 3, 2014, becoming the fourth single by the band and the second release promoting Oh, What a Life, after " Trouble".

Luck (Tom Vek album)

Luck is the third studio album by artist Tom Vek, released on 9 June 2014. The first single "Sherman (Animals In The Jungle)" was released on 11 April 2014.

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Usage examples of "luck".

Dorraine was all in white as well: stole, cossack hat, and a muff big enough, it occurred to Alacrity in passing, to hold those cute derringers plus a few landmines for luck.

Astrid Schultz looked like she was holding back tears, but Carrie Alameda had no such luck, a tear streaking down her cheek.

As luck would have it, the warder was the same one whom Alec had met on his first visit to the Tower.

He tried to keep his thoughts out of the ambient and had no luck at all.

With any luck at all, you will never focus your glims upon Miss Ames, no matter how illustrious her fortune, or by virtue of whatever scheme your papa and her papa concocted so many years ago.

As they played after supper, and Lord Lincoln followed the noble English custom of drinking till he did not know his right hand from his left, he was quite astonished on waking the next morning to find that luck had been as kind to him as love.

His arm already had been swabbed with iodine, sewn up and bandaged and in a sling and he was thanking his luck that his wound was relatively superficial.

And last, that same ill luck brought this liar to Lavas Holding, this man who tempted my cousin and bewitched him.

Once more Bink had lucked out: he was miraculously untouched by either hoof or needles.

SmithKline Beecham, that exercise in bioinformatics yielded in just weeks a promising drug target that standard laboratory experiments could not have found without years and a pinch of luck.

But as the Biter rolled away from them, exposing her weedy larboard side, four of her guns were fired almost simultaneously, and by luck or judgement they caught the roll just right.

The halfling, with the luck endemic to her race, had skidded to a stop in a particularly soft, boggy area.

Staying on here like he did, still hoping his luck was going to go up or down while your local bogman was dumping contrary evidence all over the table.

One wet day I seen Tiddly climbing into a car and he was never seen again, probably away off to the garage to rub some bogman with his mickey good luck and good fucking riddance.

Fleming and Botts, and by ill luck these two not only arrived together but knew and disliked one another.