poor lookout
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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
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 is a poor lookout for their future if they put pleasure first.
From The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements by G. R. M. Devereux
But, sailors can’t afford to waste any time in ‘crying over spilt milk’; it would be a poor lookout for them, aye, and for our country too, if they did!
From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by John B. Greene
Yes, on the face of it, it seemed a poor lookout for "Tipperary" against such a foe.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
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