Dictionary entry

No such luck

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(idm) အဲဒလောက် ကံမကောင်းပါဘူး။

Definition

luck / lʌk / n [U] ၁။ ကံ။ ကံေကာင္းျခင္း။ I could hardly believe my luck when I won. ❍ With (any/a bit of) luck we’ll be home before dark. ❍ I always carry one for luck. ❍ They’re a good team and we wish them luck in the final. ❍ I had the luck to find him at home. ❍ What a stroke of luck finding you here! ❍ Any luck with (ie Did you manage to get) the job? ❍ Our luck finally ran out (ie ended). ၂။ ကံ။ have good/bad/poor luck. ❏ as luck would have it [ IDM ] ကံေကာင္းခ်င္ေတာ့။ ကံအားေလ်ာ္စြာ။ ❏ bad, hard, etc luck (on sb) [ IDM ] (ႏွစ္သိမ့္သည့္ သေဘာျဖင့္) ကံတရားေပါ့။ Bad luck, Helen, you played very well. ❍ It’s rotten luck on those who were beaten in the first round of the competition. ❏ be down on one’s luck [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဆက္တိုက္ ကံဆိုးေနသည္။ ကံဆိုးမသြားရာ မိုးလိုက္လို႔ ရြာသည္။ ❏ be in/out of luck [ IDM ] ကံေကာင္း/ကံဆိုးသည္။ You’re in luck—there’s one ticket left. ❏ the best of/good luck (to sb)/(with sth) [ IDM ] ေအာင္ျမင္ေစေၾကာင္း ဆုေတာင္း၊ ဆႏၵျပဳသည္။ The best of luck to both of you! ❍ Good luck with your exams! ❏ just one’s luck [ IDM ] ကံေပါ့ေလ။ It was just my luck to go to Wimbledon the day it rained. ❏ one’s luck is in [ IDM ] ကံေကာင္းသည္။ ကံထသည္။ ❏ luckless adj ကံမြဲေသာ။ ကံဆိုးေသာ။ the luckless owner of the stolen van. ❏ the luck of the draw [ IDM ] ကံစီမံရာ။ ကံတရားအတိုင္း။ ❏ no such luck [ IDM ] အဲဒီေလာက္ ကံမေကာင္းပါဘူး။ ‘Did you win?’ ‘No such luck, I’m afraid. ’

Examples

  1. John never had much luck with girls.
  2. [wish someone luck (in/with something)] : We’d all like to wish you luck in your new job.
  3. There was an element of luck in the last goal.
  4. [good/bad luck] : He’s had nothing but bad luck since moving to New York.
  5. [sheer/pure luck] : It was sheer luck that we found the house.
  6. [bring luck] : It’s a custom that is believed to bring good luck.
  7. [it’s bad luck] : Many people believe it’s bad luck to walk under a ladder.
  8. [your luck runs out] : Their luck is bound to run out sometime.
  9. [your luck changes] : Perhaps your luck will change and you’ll meet someone really nice.
  10. [your luck holds/lasts] : My luck held and I found a petrol station just in time.