luck out
verb1
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.
- 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.2011, Lee Child, The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel, Dell, →ISBN, page 168:
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