Meanings
- uncountableThe seeming phenomenon where heavily intoxicated individuals manage to escape serious injury in accidents that would severely hurt or kill a sober person.
Walz’s face had turned pale. ‘Drunk’s luck didn’t hold in this case,’ he remarked. ‘Come on, let’s go and get him up.’
1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 1781 more example
A Cousin Jack, with a load aboard, ambled aimlessly into an open cut 30ft deep in Westralia the other day. A doctor and ambulance were telephoned for, but their services were not required, as the Cornishman was discovered at the bottom 10 minutes later, fast asleep, with his head pillowed on his boots. ‘Drunk's luck.’
1902 March 2, The Truth, Sydney, page 1, column 6
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