The phrase
"lucky break" means a fortunate or unexpected event or opportunity that brings good luck or success.
Full definition
But due to a couple
of lucky breaks, they and their co-authors are the first to document the material's remarkable properties.
And of course, no matter where you live, riches are most likely to come to those who work ridiculously hard and get a few
lucky breaks here and there.
One
lucky break for Guerrilla Games was that they were able to adapt their Decima engine, which they used to develop Killzone, to the open world of its new game.
I'm hoping to get the same
lucky break with my other beloved pair of loafers, the Kelsi Daggers I have been wearing non-stop for a year.
How can we distinguish between a hockey victory that's mostly down to talent and one that benefitted
from lucky breaks?
Basil Poledouris's
lucky break as a film composer came because his old college buddy John Milius gave him a shot at Big Wednesday.
With a few
lucky breaks like the crazy fake field goal attempt by Michigan, which ultimately led to an actual field goal before halftime, this game could have easily gone the other way.
She's definitely seen a few
lucky breaks go her way, but she dominated her round of 16, quarterfinals and semifinals opponents in straight sets.
Arsene Wenger is not very happy that some of Arsenal's rivals in the Premier League have had
lucky breaks handed to them on a plate, while poor old Wenger has had to struggle for every penny he has earned for the Gunners in the last 20 years, and had to build the Emirates Stadium with his bare hands while being forced to sell all his best players.
Through a series of
unplanned lucky breaks I now get to study how the cosmos operates, working with a combination of supercomputers and good old - fashioned pencil - and - paper equations.
Filmmaker Atsuko Hirayanagi parlayed that, and the
endless lucky breaks it generated, into a feature - length film that continues... Read More»
In fact, one could argue that with my long career, no student debt and a bunch of
other lucky breaks in life I should have piled up a much larger net worth by now.
For Annie, her
next lucky break, and certainly the happiest moment of her life, came when she was adopted by Andrea and Sergio.
Whether you are looking for career advancement or that
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amy this basement has come so far, it looks so good and the cabinet paint jobs are
awesome lucky break on the oops... they do separate the room from the hang - out space and the utilitarian area very well i like what you have done....
They're still getting chances, but Italy are by far the better side right now, and even when Germany
get lucky breaks — like the Thomas Müller - Marco Reus one - two that nearly set them up for a goal — the Italians can recover, with Balzaretti saving the day with an excellent slide tackle.
Dr. Helm, a professor of energy policy at Oxford and an economic adviser to Britain's secretary of state for energy and climate change, recently discussed what he views as America's
lucky break with natural gas and what we can learn from Europe's energy policy mistakes.
PURA BELPRÉ AUTHOR AWARD, for a Latino writer whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience: Ruth Behar for
Lucky Broken Girl (Nancy Paulsen)
But I think we were very lucky with getting the rights to Casino Royale and recalibrating the franchise; making it more relevant for the times, and the
biggest lucky break we got was Daniel Craig, because with him we've been able to do so much with the character because he's just such a spectacular actor.
Republicans badly need a
few lucky breaks to hold their House majority in November.
In what would turn out to be
a lucky break, the Mercedes» gas tank was almost empty.
Ironically, today Karpelès doesn't view the retrieval of the 200,000 Bitcoins as
a lucky break.
In hindsight, that was
a lucky break, Souq CEO Ronaldo Mouchawar says.
This includes the impact of chance opportunities,
lucky breaks, and being in the right place at the right time.
«I look back now and think I caught
a lucky break.
This time, the southern half of the reef was spared largely due to
a lucky break that arrived in the form of a tropical cyclone.
That was, in a way,
a lucky break: They had put themselves at the nexus of the growing cupcake trend and another surefire money source: the throngs of dumb, procrastinating men looking to buy their way out of Valentine's Day.
Chances are they didn't get where they are because of
a lucky break, but rather because they possess characteristics or a state of mind that sets them apart from people leading average lives.