poor lookout
Example Sentences
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Yer know if he was to get lazy, it 'ud be a poor lookout for us.
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon
It would be rather a poor lookout if the thing came to grief in the Bay of Biscay, say, and I came souse into the sea.”
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang
Ah, well! ’twas now a mean, poor lookout for the 207 cosey conviviality I had all my life promised myself with my uncle.
From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan
It's a poor lookout for a man of your years, Jed.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
If no reinforcements come up, especially heavy artillery, we shall have a poor lookout and must retire.
From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 by Various
