down on luck

down on your luck

suffering because a lot of bad things are happening to you For a while they were homeless, living in a shelter for families down on their luck.

Usage notes: usually said about someone who has no work or money

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sneha	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada
EsbjÖRn	-	Swedish
Elisa	e-LEE-zah (Italian, German), E-lee-sah (Finnish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Finnish, English
Cila	-	Slovene, Croatian
DanÍEl	-	Icelandic
Charisma	kə-RIZ-mə	English (Rare)