Out of luck meaning

2 n-uncount If someone says that a bad situation affecting you is just your hard luck, they do not care about it or think you should be helped, often because they think it is your fault. INFORMAL poss N (=tough luck) The shop assistants didn't really want to discuss the matter, saying it was just my hard luck. Search out of luck and thousands of other words in English Cobuild dictionary from Reverso. You can complete the definition of out of luck given by the English Cobuild dictionary with other English dictionaries : Wikipedia, Lexilogos, Oxford, Cambridge, Chambers Harrap, Wordreference, Collins Lexibase dictionaries, Merriam Webster ...

[Middle English lucke, from Middle Dutch luc, short for gheluc; akin to Middle High German gelücke (source of modern German Glück, happiness, luck), and Middle Low German gelükke, luck, all perhaps from Old Low Fraconian *galukki : *ga-, prefix forming collective nouns of result + *-lukki, of unknown origin.] Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 luck Past participle: lucked Gerund: lucking Imperative luck luck Present I luck you luck he/she/it lucks we luck you luck they luck Preterite I lucked you lucked he/she/it lucked we lucked you lucked they lucked Present Continuous I am lucking you are lucking he/she/it is lucking we are lucking you are lucking they are lucking Present Perfect I have lucked you have lucked he/she/it has lucked we have lucked you have lucked they have lucked Past Continuous I was lucking you were lucking he/she/it was lucking we were lucking you were lucking they were lucking Past Perfect I had lucked you had lucked he/she/it had lucked we had lucked you had lucked they had lucked Future I will luck you will luck he/she/it will luck we will luck you will luck they will luck Future Perfect I will have lucked you will have lucked he/she/it will have lucked we will have lucked you will have lucked they will have lucked Future Continuous I will be lucking you will be lucking he/she/it will be lucking we will be lucking you will be lucking they will be lucking Present Perfect Continuous I have been lucking you h...

Hi, there this is Harry and welcome to my English learning podcast Speak Better English with Harry where I try to help you to improve your conversational English, your English pronunciation and perhaps your business English to help you to get that job or to improve your opportunities. Today, I’m going to talk to you about easy English expressions with OUT OF. As always, I’m going to give you advanced English expressions with meaning and a detailed example. out of fashion Meaning: something is no longer fashionable Example: Occasionally my wife says to me, ‘What are you wearing that for? It’s out of fashion.’ out of luck Meaning: it means your luck has changed and nothing is going right for you Example: The team’s manager accused the players of making some mistakes and thought the team was out of luck. out of this world Meaning: something is so fantastic, so wonderful that words can’t really describe our feelings about it Examples: Wow, that meal was out of this world! It tasted so good. The hotel that we stayed in on our honeymoon was out of this world. out of stock Meaning: a shop doesn’t have a product(s) available to sell Examples: I’m really sorry, I’m afraid size 43 is currently out of stock. This book is currently out of stock, it is due to be reprinted but not for several weeks. out of date Meaning: something is past its best and you can’t use it Example: This ticket is out of date. It was valid for two months from the date of purchase, unfortunately, the date has j...

Unlike most Why? questions about English, this one actually is understandable, since it's a metaphor. LUCK is a troublesome concept to talk about. Lady Luck, or The Lady, is a goddess in many cults, real and fictional. She is an anthropomorphic personification of unpredictability, chance, random choice, great desire, great success, and great failure. And that image is still part of the cultural package, in every culture. But us Western cultures don't pretend to believe in goddesses much so we use a different metaphor to account for the fact that some people succeed more obviously than others. Instead of the metaphor theme • LUCK is a PERSON like the goddess who blesses us, we now use • LUCK is a FLUID like the fluid that provides energy to our machines. Some people have more petrol, gas, or current than others do, just as they used to be blessed more. So, to take up the idioms you ask about, • out of luck is basically the same thing as out of gas. The power fluid has depleted to zero. Too bad, so sad, nobody's fault. • to luck out is to win, often surprisingly or against high odds. There is also luck into, luck onto, and luck on, all similar. These are like a spouting oil well. Hurray, how nice, you did the right thing after all. The key is the different constructions with out. The idiomatic predicate out of X means 'supplies of X are depleted to zero', but the phrasal verb particle out in luck out, win out, shout out, and blast out is a completive particle, usually implyi...