/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Devil’s Luck (The)
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Astounding good luck. Persons always lucky were thought at one time to have compounded with the Devil.
“You wonʹt have to pay his annuity very long; you have the Devil’s luck in bargains, always.”—Dickens.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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