hard luck

I probably need to be clear straight off that I am not presenting myself as any kind of hard-luck case.

This is a woman who came out of the kind of hard-luck story that she handles so well, and built an enormous media empire.

“With a hard luck story and a little charm, we obtained cellphones that are not registered to anyone,” it reads.

After a hard-luck few years, the pro-wrestling pioneer is re-entering the ring with a big adult-film release.

Tell him of fights, of men that wouldn't give up, but fought their way out of hard luck.

But he had hard luck, too, for another carbuncle developed at Melbourne and kept him laid up for nearly a week.

While gloomily grieving over his hard luck, the faint odor of rice-wine seemed borne on the breeze.

Besides, the Briton came out of the affair with such hard luck, that there is much sympathy for him.

But it can't be helped—there was nothing to be picked up abroad, after that double stroke of hard luck.