two-time loser

two-time loser

Someone who is hopelessly unable to find success. I don't know why I ever married a two-time loser like you! You're just a two-time loser, Betty. I'll be running my own company some day, and you'll still be here answering the phone at reception.
See also: loser
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

two-time loser

a confirmed loser. Poor Richard is a two-time loser. Martin is a two-time loser, or at least he looks like one.
See also: loser
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

two-time loser

n. a confirmed loser. Martin is a two-time loser, or at least he looks like one.
See also: loser
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • any time means no time
  • anytime
  • any time
  • (it's) time to run
  • ahead of (someone's or something's) time
  • ahead of your/its time
  • (it's) time to hit the road
  • an open invitation
  • any day
  • against time
References in periodicals archive
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Scott is a two-time loser at the quarter-final stage, having featured in England's last-eight defeats to the United States in 2007 and France four years later.
Worcester, though, is a two-time loser now and with the AHL headed west, may never get another Triple-A team.
Former Olympic champ Asbel Kiprop insists he won't be a two-time loser in Scotland in 2014.
And when it's over he'll be either a two-time NBA Finals MVP or a two-time loser in a Heat uniform.
After failing to win the election outright and losing the referendum, he'd be the two-time loser who'd lost Tory power for ever.
16 in the world, is a two-time World Cup winner, while the fourth-ranked Netherlands is still trying to shake off the tag of two-time loser after talent-packed Dutch teams lost to hosts Germany and Argentina in 1974 and 1978.
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So far, the union's most hopeful prospect is a Southern California billionaire who is a two-time loser in bidding for newspaper companies over the past two years.
Political pundit Larry J Sabato said: "There is absolutely no way the Democratic party is going to throw away its nomination on a two-time loser from the '80s who is scandal-tinged.
One told us: "He's a two-time loser in these elections.
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