| 单词 | to be bad luck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be bad luck P1. to be bad luck: (of an action, event, thing, etc.) to be a sign of ill fortune; to be inauspicious or unlucky. Usually with anticipatory it and infinitive as complement, as it is bad luck to. ΚΠ 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft ix. iii. 170 To plaie the cold prophet, as to recount it good or bad lucke, when salt or wine falleth on the table. 1658 H. Edmundson Comes Facundus in Via: Fellow-traveller 55 There is an old superstitious saying among common people, that if an Hare crosse the way it is bad luck, but if a Woolf it is good luck. a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) I. 72 He knew a wise old Saying, which maintain'd, That 'twas bad Luck to count what one had gain'd. 1831 Atlantic Souvenir 298 It is bad luck to put off a marriage. 1890 W. D. Howells Boy's Town 201 You must not kill a granddaddy-long-legs, or a lady-bug, was bad luck. 1957 M. Frank & B. Clark First Lady of Seeing Eye (1964) viii. 100 Any stupe knows it's bad luck to steal from a blind man! 1962 C. Ekwensi Burning Grass xxi. 150 Legend holds that the place where a man has died is bad luck. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 June d1/4 When we are about to lock a deal down, it's bad luck to high-five each other, because you might jinx it. < as lemmas |
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