Sentences with phrase «old bad luck»

In that case, you may be tempted to experience a recent betrayal as an expression of your fate, instead of plain old bad luck.

So how much of your loss is due to the machinations of the house, versus plain old bad luck?

While it's definitely bad to repeat a failure mode in consecutive flights, the truth is that getting to orbit is simply damned hard to do, and plain old bad luck has an outsized influence on things.

Canine miscommunication, running into the «wrong» dog, and plain old bad luck may all lead to a dog fight.

Fortunately, whether you find yourself in this tough position because of spending too much, unexpected setbacks, inadequate planning or plain old bad luck, there are ways to improve your situation, if you're willing to act quickly and be creative and resourceful.

But Mother Nature, a hesitant economy, and just plain old bad luck conspired to give automakers plenty of ups and downs.

Distractions, lapses in judgment, and plain old bad luck are a part of every day life.

On the passive side, EyeSight is just the latest in a long list of hidden goodies baked into Subarus that are just waiting to protect us from ourselves, other drivers, the elements or plain old bad luck.

I can understand that to some extent as we do seem to be getting hit with the same old bad luck on the injury front, but I think we have a lot of reasons to look forward to our next match, especially as our opponents Man United are in a much worse situation than we are.

All of this does not add up to a disaster, at least not yet, but do you get the feeling that the same old bad luck is coming back to hurt Arsenal again?

I think the blame lies more within Republican Party elites, the center - right electorate, and plain old bad luck than with the nominating system.

Not exact matches

In fact, according to an old folk rhyme that many people at the time would have known — «Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all» — it would have been considered bad luck to get married on a Saturday.

thats bad luck turned around.my old blender would never have gotten the filling that smooth!so maybe other people who do not have a fancy highpowered blender could do this the reward is great.i also melted the chocolate with the hot coffee mixed with the milk, so I have one dirty dish less, in my kitchen thats a success!

I suffered from some kind of bout of bad luck though, with the minivan nearly leaving without me and all the pads and gloves I chose were completely worn out: I was whipped in the face by a loose strap, my knuckles were in pain because of a lack of padding in an old glove and, the last pair, finally my size, had the least sticky Velcro ever.

However, Lady Luck is not sweet on Steve Kean, the Rovers boss who is continually bombarded with desperate pleas from fans to step down from his position as first - team manager, after the club's worst start in the top flight for 15 years, and the 44 - year - old Glaswegian is unsurprisingly the bookies favourite to be the next Premier League manager out the door.

It's bad enough when parents give each other a hard time about how their babies are sleeping — like it's a badge of good parenting, not just that you might have lucked out (some kids are great sleepers from the start — luckily for them, they miss out on being left to scream until they vomit or give up altogether), but when professionals tell parents it's OK to ignore an EIGHT WEEK OLD baby (he's just come out of the womb, folks — this is the fourth trimester), they are normalising abuse.

Through many missteps for which I take full responsibility, a couple strokes of bad luck, and a select few cases of good old - fashioned getting screwed over, I haven't as yet succeeded in building a lucrative, flourishing career or a family of my own.

We had the worst luck with ours in the old house.

Hey there I'm 28 years old no kids never been married having hard time achieving my goals been having a streak of bad luck lately but I'm reall chill laid back attractive and was thinking maybe one y» all would wan na snatch me up

Basing a television show on a 20 - year - old movie (and one that had already been turned — unsuccessfully — into a TV series in 1990) is an odd decision in itself, but NBC's new «Parenthood» has also been plagued by bad luck, with original star Maura Tierney forced to drop out due to health problems and the show bounced from fall until March.

But she's about to break her bad luck streak now that 29 - year - old actress is set to make her Off - Broadway debut in the two - person play, The Way We Get By, written by LaBute and co-starring The Newsroom's Thomas Sadoski.

He has had good luck as a bad guy with bad hair («No Country for Old Men»), but as a bottle blond, he's no Robert Shaw.

When 11 - year - old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) wakes up to discover gum stuck in this hair, the rest of the day goes downhill fast as his bad luck spreads quickly to every member of his family.

The only other significant character to complicate the mix is a sour old busybody (Camryn Manheim) who passes the stolen car on the road and has the bad luck to intervene just as the fun turns violent — as the carefree lark evolves into a more high - stakes action movie.

Enjoyable children's comedy based on the stories of Jeff Kinney and starring Zachary Gordon as Greg, a neurotic 11 - year - old boy whose attempts to become the most popular kid at his school are constantly thwarted by bad luck and his spiteful big brother.

I tried now and then to tell funny stories to Alke and Matern, my grandchildren, stories my parents had once told me, of old Lenne kissing her brother by mistake, deep in her cups, or the year the maypole came crashing down and all the girls were cross for thought of the bad luck it brought.

The 13 - year - old lives in Caboose, West Virginia, and if it wasn't for bad luck, she'd have no luck at all: her mother walked away, her father died in the mines, and her brother was killed in the line of fire, leaving foster mom Phyllis to do her best with egg - salad sandwiches served on the porch at four in the morning.

We didn't expect we'd actually be using the insurance before our dog even turned a year old, but between some bad luck and a bird - catching pup, we added up the vet trips.

I then got hit with bad luck — two bitches with pyometra that had to be spayed, and then my last intact bitch had two litters of males and the third litter a singleton female puppy who died at 15 days old.

They all present a poetic re-working of Greek popular tradition, which develops around three themes: KARAGIOZIS, POSTCARDS of old Athens, the EVIL EYE, a bead charm used to guard against ill omen and bad luck.

**** There's an old adage about «bad luck» coming in threes.

The unusual decision purportedly has to do with an old Chinese superstition — more commonly known as tetraphobia — which associates the number «four» with bad luck.

I can top all of you being in a wait and see relationship for 24 years, good times, great sex but no respect; it has taken me this long to realize that love doesn't hurt; love cares what the other person's needs are and tries to fulfill them; the plain truth is that this guy is a user out of our good nature; the worse of the worse because they know the feelings and hurt in someone and they continue to take, string along to fulfill their own needs; it isn't about how much we love them; it is about how little that they love us; no one lets a person that they truly love be in pain, year after year; it is a defect in their make up and a defect in ours to stay and settle for less than we deserve; there is love after this and we have to learn to love ourself enough to stop this pain on our own behalf; mine has thrown me out like an old shoe over and over and I forgive him, not now; I forgive myself for wasting time and need to move on to find someone who isn't selfish and using; I can't change him, I can only change me and that I am going to do; there is a saying that if you aren't over him you are under him, exactly l see you and best of luck to my poor replacement.