run of luck



run of luck

Also, run of bad luck. A continued spell of good (or bad) fortune, as in The builder had a run of luck with day after day of good weather, or Nothing was going right; he was having a long run of bad luck. Originally used mainly in games of chance, this idiom was first recorded in 1782, but the use of run for a continued spell of something dates from the late 1600s.
See also: luck, of, run

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
GÜNtherGUYN-terGerman, Germanic Mythology
ŽIga-Slovene
GottholdGAWT-hawltGerman
Babirye-Eastern African, Ganda
Iared-Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
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