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unlucky hour
noun as in off-year
Example Sentences
Naturally, however, nothing came of this, except the discovery that I had been out of nights lately; which had scarcely been made when who should appear on the scene, in an unlucky hour for me, but the gentleman who had identified me outside the gaming room at the "Rose."
As for me, up to now, I have never spoken in an unlucky hour, God preserve me!
We had whips of vegetables from my garden, until Braun in an unlucky hour gave Ellison permission to turn a few cows into his paddock.
He can only suggest that they should shut the child up in a tower till the unlucky hour be past, after which his fate will have no more power over him.
So I must to horse, and must learn how a single unlucky hour can rob one of all welfare and so separate him from all luck and happiness that all his life he must bear the consequences.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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