Sentences with phrase «by dumb luck»

Some people making mistakes will get bailed out by dumb luck with appreciation but that is gambling and not investing.

Now, like I said, anyone can get ONE ticket dismissed by dumb luck, and this is how many people get their case dismissed.

I have determined that what goes for volcanic cooling is not caused by the volcano but by dumb luck.

You don't grab on to whatever contrafactual theory you prefer and hope that history vindicates you by dumb luck.

Mutual funds have some great years, extraordinary years, that can't be explained by dumb luck.

A century later, the filmmaker seems more leftist, saving Beth from Davis» fate as a satirical target, when by dumb luck, she spots Freeway from her airplane seat, and becomes an accidental hero by concocting a fake emergency to fool the pilots into landing.

Those first two gray whale pioneers, which threaded their way through the icy labyrinth of the Northwest Passage into the North Atlantic, accomplished this feat by dumb luck, according to Alter.

The temptation is to see him as a frustrating character in a Guy Clark ballad, someone whose passions keep him grasping at failure but who, by dumb luck, succeeds.

Whether Bobby Riggs was so far ahead of everybody else in his recognition of a man - woman gimmick as a potential bonanza or whether he stumbled onto it by dumb luck is moot, but evidence supports the latter view.

Not exact matches

You are smart enough to see a BMW drive by and say great engineering, yet you see the complexity of life and say dumb luck.

Failures moan that successful people get their breaks not through their own efforts but through some vague notion of dumb «luck» When we were humiliated 6 - 0 by Chelsea, they played during the weekdays but we didn't.

No doubt we shot poorly throughout the game, but the second I think was caused more by Miami then just dumb luck.

His twin sister has ADHD, and by God's grace and just dumb luck, I am handling it well — so far.

By dumb bad luck, all the other Mars meteorites had originated from the dry parts of the planet.

I stumbled upon a very similar training system (by my own creativity and dumb luck) a couple years back.

Pitt seems to get by entirely on dumb ideas and reckless luck.

Wymark as the inspector is the central character, who's the antithesis of Sherlock Holmes, trying to figure out the perpetrator of the violent crimes more by hit and miss and dumb luck than with logic and deduction.

I'd love to say it was all by design, but some of it was dumb luck.

Whether or not T - stat replacement was indicated, that might have diagnosed your problem, even if by costly dumb luck.

By this theory, I maintain that getting an agent is 100 % «dumb luck», or that agent being able to sell you novel to anyone is «100 % dumb luck».

As we see now that risk was very significant, and just by pure dumb luck, I missed a lot of the pain.

Whether they refund out of that is always on a case by case basis though, and sometimes it's up to dumb luck on which CSR you get and if they're having a good day, or if they're complete a ** holes in general.

Showing the breadth of Baseman's oeuvre, the exhibition includes illustration works (published in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The Los Angeles Times); Baseman's complete line of designer toys including Dumb Luck, Hotchachacha, and Toby; costumes and fashion collaborations; video and sculptural installations; and new paintings inspired by his recent trips across Asia.

The researchers behind the ominous study basically discounted their own efforts by suggesting that any evidence or experience that didn't support their projections could be dismissed because they would be based on dumb «luck.»

I don't know what force protected me that morning — perhaps it was God almighty; maybe it was dumb luck — but there's not a week that goes by that I'm not grateful for my health and moments of good fortune such as that.