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	Pronounced	Usage
Amichai	-	Hebrew
Dunyasha	-	Russian
Griselda	gri-ZEL-də (English)	English, Scottish, Spanish, Literature
Sorcha	SAWR-ə-khə (Irish), SAWR-khə (Irish)	Irish, Scottish
Danihel	-	Biblical Latin
Isolde	i-ZOL-də (English), i-SOL-də (English), ee-ZAWL-du (German)	English (Rare), German, Arthurian Romance