fisherman's luck

noun

Failure to catch any fish.

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Meanings

nounfisherman's luck (uncountable)
  1. colloquialuncountableFailure to catch any fish.

    The girls caught quite a long string of fine big trout, but I had fisherman's luck and had to eat fish that the girls caught that night.

    1940, George Walter Goodhart, The Pioneer Life of George W. Goodhart
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