third time lucky



third time lucky

The belief or hope that the third attempt at something will be successful. Primarily heard in UK. I hope to make it third time lucky after failing this test twice already!
See also: lucky, third, time

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Aliprand-Ancient Germanic
NİMet-Turkish
Wolodymyr-Ukrainian
Adair[ə'dɛə]
Chavdar-Bulgarian
Sunil-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Nep