| 单词 | third time lucky |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the) third time ('s) lucky e. In proverbial phrase (the) third time ('s) lucky. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > there is much success [phrase] > likely to succeed at third attempt (the) third time ('s) lucky1862 c1840 E. B. Barrett Lett. (1933) 5 ‘The luck of the third adventure’ is proverbial.] 1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 194 The third time's lucky. 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 59 ‘The next time we come to blows——’ ‘Will make the third,’ I interrupted... ‘Aye, true... Well, the third time's lucky.’ 1941 N. Marsh Death & Dancing Footman vii. 136 It was a glancing blow..but..it might have been my head... One of them's saying to himself, ‘Third time, lucky’. 1979 J. Tate tr. K. A. Blom Limits of Pain ix. 82 Lars Westerberg discovered that the expression third time lucky had something in it. < as lemmas |
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