down on one's luck

Meaning: (idiomatic)Unluckyorundergoinga period of bad luck, especially with respect tofinancialmatters.1895,Marie Corelli,The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire[…], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published1896,→OCLC,page14:I'm sorry to hear you aredown on your luck;1915,Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 28, inThe Rover Boys in Business:If Crabtree isdown on his luckhe will most likely be willing to do anything for money.1922February,James Joyce,Ulysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company,[…],→OCLC:, Episode 16:--He isdown on his luck. He asked me to ask you to ask somebody named Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.1954April 19, “The New Pictures”, inTime:Willie "tries to resist"—being, as the synopsis explains, "an attractive and intelligent girl who is simplydown on her luckin the ruins of postwar Germany."2008July 1, Mel Antonen, “Rays, A's using same formula for success”, inUSA Today, retrieved3 November 2008:Pitcher Kyle Lohse, 29, who has had unsuccessful stints with the Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies, seems to have found a home with the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that has a knack for turning around pitchersdown on their luck.

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