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In ill-luck.
“‘I guess, stranger, youʹll find me an ex-president down on his luck.ʹ”—A. Egmont Hake: Paris Originals (Professors of Languages).
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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.