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good luck
Good fortune; success. Now freq. as a salutation or wish. † to drink a good luck: to drink success to one. Also attrib., as in good luck shilling, a shilling given by the seller to ensure good luck with the thing sold.
1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 14 Tho thought reynart this is good luck. a1529Skelton El. Rummyng 567 Wyth that she begynnes The pot to her plucke, And dranke a good lucke. 1535Coverdale 1 Kings i. 47 The kynges seruauntes are gone in to wysh good lucke vnto oure lorde kynge Dauid. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 17 Nowe for good lucke, caste an olde shoe after mee. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. v. 84 As good lucke would haue it, comes in one Mist. Page. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. x. 41 The secret working of God, which men call Good Luck. 1684E. Halley Solid Probl. in Misc. Cur. (1708) II. 96 'Tis my good Luck to hit upon a certain Geometrick Effection of the central Rule. 1805E. Cavanagh Let. 4 Oct. in M. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 187 ‘Well to be sure,’ sais I. ‘Russia! & good luck to you, you are a comical place!’ 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 10 There is the ‘good-luck shilling’. 1829G. Griffin Collegians II. xvii. 33 Good look to them both, wherever they are. 1858R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Rev. I. 13 The indolent..gaze in amazement on results which they attribute to the good luck of a rival. 1861Mrs. Gaskell Let. 28 Feb. (1966) 643 Is he really ‘after’ Sophy? If so, good luck for her. 1898J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 1 'E ain't come in fer a bloomin' forchin 'ave 'e? Jolly good luck to 'im if 'e 'as! 1942M. McCarthy Company She Keeps (1943) v. 130 He was a mascot, a good-luck piece. 1958‘J. Bell’ Seeing Eye x. 115 ‘He has kept the Bert Lewis drawing...’ ‘Good luck to him!’ 1958Photoplay Oct. 54/2 We have received some good-luck telegrams and letters. 1963P. Willmott Evolution of Community ix. 99 People seem to be glad if someone else gets something. They don't grudge it. They say, ‘Good luck to them.’
Proverb.1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 35 A pound of good luck is worth a ton of merit. |