luck of the Irish
Example Sentences
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“I guess it’s just luck of the Irish or something,” he said after that one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
"I'm half-Irish myself, but I truly understand the luck of the Irish now. It's pretty cool."
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Or the luck of the Irish, given the corned-beef-and-sauerkraut kind of day it was as Notre Dame prepared to run through a late-afternoon practice here to prepare for the Crimson Tide.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Put it down to the luck of the Irish.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2020
I’ll just have to make a quick scoot across the line, and trust to the luck of the Irish army!
From With Hoops of Steel by Smith, Dan
