devil's own luck
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But through it all the devil’s own luck which had been with us from the first held good.
From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.
In fact, it'll need the devil's own luck.
From Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns by Webb, Archibald
"There!" he cried, "you bring bad fortune! whenever you come, I have the devil's own luck."
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
You must be confoundedly clever, or else you had the devil's own luck....
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
Oh," answered Mellish, "it's a boy—a stranger—who is having the devil's own luck at the start.
From The Face and the Mask by Barr, Robert