down on one's luck
Related to down on one's luck: no such luck
down on (one's) luck
Experiencing a period of misfortune. Ryan is really down on his luck these days—he just lost his job, and then he got evicted from his apartment.
See also: down, luck, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
down on one's luck
Afflicted by misfortune, as in They've been down on their luck ever since they moved out West. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s]
See also: down, luck, on
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
down on one's luck
Short of cash or credit. A nineteenth-century description of financial embarrassment, usually of a temporary nature, this term implies, with down, that the person so described at one time had more resources. Thus Thackeray wrote, “The Chevalier was. . . . to use his own picturesque expression, ‘down on his luck’” (Pendennis, 1849).
See also: down, luck, on
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- down on (one's) luck
- down on your luck
- be down on (one's) luck
- be down on your luck
- bad luck
- a streak of bad luck
- a string of bad luck
- Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, the
- a run of bad luck
- tough luck