luck out

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luck out (third-person singular simple present lucks out, present participle lucking out, simple past and past participle lucked out)

1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To experience great luck; to be extremely fortunate or lucky.

   I lucked out and got the last two tickets to the big show.

2. (colloquial, idiomatic) To experience a misfortune; to be unlucky.
   • 2011, Lee Child, The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel‎^[1], Dell, →ISBN, page 168:

     The baby brother was no oil painting. He had lucked out with the genetic lottery. […] He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

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• Mark Liberman (8 October 2011) “Lucking out”, in Language Log