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luck of the devil
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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Folcher | | - | Ancient Germanic |
| Seth (2) | | SET (English), SAYT (English) | Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized) |
| Fidelia | | - | Spanish (Rare) |
| Ulf | | - | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
| Roan | | - | Frisian |
| Emeka | | - | Western African, Igbo |