the luck of the devil

Extremely good luck or fortune. I can't believe I won the lottery and a radio contest in the same week—I have the luck of the devil! You'd need the luck of the devil to find a room to rent that's less than $800 a month in this city.

luck of the devil

Also, luck of the Irish. Extraordinarily good fortune, as in You've the luck of the devil-that ball landed just on the line, or Winning the lottery-that's the luck of the Irish. These superstitious attributions of good fortune date from the first half of the 1900s.

See also: devil, luck, of

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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