The phrase
"dumb luck" means that something good or lucky happened by chance or accident, without any skill, intelligence, or effort involved.
Full definition
Without those 2 things you could mail 10,000 per month and
by dumb luck land a deal but that is not how to run and effective business and maximum returns and profits.
As we see now that risk was very significant, and just by
pure dumb luck, I missed a lot of the pain.
But underneath its seemingly boring exterior lies a tremendously fun exercise in teamwork, communication and sometimes
sheer dumb luck as you make last - minute decisions to stop a bomb from going off.
The folks who succeed have no way to know if their success was due to talent, skill, and planning, or
merely dumb luck.
When the journey takes a turn for the worst, however, the crew must rely on a
little dumb luck to track down the mythical creature and save the show.
Whether or not T - stat replacement was indicated, that might have diagnosed your problem, even if by
costly dumb luck.
While short - term winners will appear to be better and exhibit investment skill, in fact these apparently superior results are far more likely to be just short -
term dumb luck.
However, we can not attribute the woman's actual win 90 % to the trend (the man had no trend so it is
clearly dumb luck).
And that may be because your manager has great skill and discipline, and is able to continue to beat the market... or it may be because
of dumb luck.
Part of it, I suppose, is the
plain dumb luck of setting off a fad: kids are reading her books because other kids are reading her books.
This was
n't dumb luck, but the result of a strategy, based on years of marketing experience.
«It was just
dumb luck at the time that we were interested and even working on it,» recalls Geisbert, today a professor at the University of Texas's Galveston National Laboratory.
According to a «big bang» theory, it just so happened randomly
via dumb luck but our best and brightest can't create a cotton - pickin thing using their own dead materials / elements.
Dumb luck also includes not finding an adequate fill in for Sekera then being in a desperate position two months into the season.
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.
Even when Fabious is away on a quest to kill this or that mythical beast in service of the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the brothers» father King Tallious (Charles Dance) never stop praising his elder son, while wondering how Thadeous could so royally screw up a peace treaty with a nearby dwarf tribe (shown in the opening scene, which, through its display of Thadeous»
dumb luck in escaping hanging due to dwarf - sized engineering, is the movie's funniest).
(My mate's Peugeot was never the same when he found it one day
through dumb luck about two years later.)
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.
The best asset we were suppose to get back from that trade is easily the worst of the three (LaVine), the best was
totally dumb luck (THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT LAURI, JUST BPA) and I'm still not sold on Dunn as the «PG of the Future».
C + for PC based on a trade done for no good reason (still lost a d - man to the knights), gave no benefit (please don't tell me about the OT goal), and
required dumb luck to actually benefit the Oilers.
Some are
dumb luck propositions, like betting heads or tails on the coin flip, or over / under on the length of the national anthem.
Attention, singles fed up travails there new app apparently aimed at graduates, because this Rugby
league dumb luck ABC camera crew captures Damian Keogh arrest - Join one best people believed.
Dumb Luck Capital... 2) Coal, 3) Waited «for the Ag cycle to turn,»... 6) Use «mid-cycle earnings» on melting ice cubes
Luck is included in the form of two decks of cards, but also restrained so that smart play almost always wins over
simple dumb luck.
It's something that can often feel a little to fast and frantic for its own good with kill sometimes feeling more
like dumb luck at being in the right place at the right time instead of skill.
Our weekly new game roundup doesn't happen until tomorrow, but
developer Dumb Luck Games launched their new title Retro Highway [Free] at such an odd time (as far as mobile game releases are concerned, anyway) that I wanted to make sure that it didn't slip through the cracks.
The missions, which, in the GTA series, could too often be won or lost based on
dumb luck alone, are both entertaining and challenging, with none of the objectives dangling on the placement of NPCs or the inconsistent AI of your enemies that plagued past Rockstar efforts.
For some reason, Texans believe that their
own dumb luck is proof of the greatness of the free market system
I was able to take advantage of pure
dumb luck re the timing of my Oshawa purchase and sale.
The only way that one who buys a home can actually make any money on that property, above and beyond inflation, is if one buys at the bottom of a price crash and thence sells at the price peak just before the bubble bursts, something that the average home owner can not do unless via pure
dumb luck twice over.
I've lost plenty more Swords because of
sheer dumb luck or a second of lost concentration.