单词 | worse luck |
释义 | > as lemmas(the) worse luck a. colloquial. (the) worse luck: unfortunately, regrettably; more's the pity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] shame to saya1225 (the) worse luck1580 1580 G. Harvey in E. Spenser & G. Harvey Three Proper & Wittie Lett. 35 But what sayes Daphne? Non omni dormio, worse lucke. a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iv. sig. G2v The woorse lucke Iaques, but because I am thy friend I will aduise the somewhat towards the attainement of the gallowes. 1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case ii. sig. E1v Pro. Hee's yet liuing. Rom. Liuing? the worse lucke. 1672 J. Lacy Dumb Lady iii. i. 30 Doct. Now woman what want you? Wife. That that no bodie can help me to, the worse luck, Sir. 1709 Mem. Signor Rozelli 267 I went up to his Chamber trembling, for fear he had miscarry'd in his Undertaking: But (the worse Luck for me) he had but too well succeeded. 1784 Greenwood Farm I. 5 Their father's dead, the worse luck for me. 1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother xvii. 234 He..should see enough of him when Mr. Hope came, worse luck. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xv. 122 There are some of Flint's hands aboard; worse luck for the rest of us. 1902 A. E. W. Mason Four Feathers xxiii. 227 There are women..to whom the management of a big house, the season in London, the ordinary round of visits, are sufficient. I, worse luck, was not one of them. 1945 C. Isherwood Prater Violet 116 My directors are always resigning. All except the lousy ones, worse luck. 2014 S. May Wake up Happy Every Day xxii. 157 I haven't got a Sapphic bone in my body, worse luck. < as lemmas |
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