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PORICK
from fucking IRELAND on 2008-04-08 07:03 [#02192314]
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What does the phrase "lucked out" mean to you? To me, it meant nothing, and isn't a phrase I'd come across people using.. But my friend put it to me another way:
"I was playing cards, it was my turn to play, I lucked out"
Was I lucky or unlucky?
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SlipDrinkMats
from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-04-08 07:14 [#02192316]
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It's by no means a phrase I'd employ, sounds ghastly. I'm assuming (which, as we know, makes an Ass of U and Ming) that it means "unlucky", my luck was out, as opposed to my luck was in, which clearly means "lucky"
I was playing cards, it was my turn to play, I was deeply aggreived to find myself in possession of a very weak hand, so I upturned the table and left.
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SlipDrinkMats
from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-04-08 07:16 [#02192317]
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Though thinking about it now it could mean lucky.
In summary: Sorry, I'm not sure. My gut (and by god is it in a bad state) says "Unlucky". My brain when it adopts an American accent says "It's lucky, you schmuck".
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jb000
on 2008-04-08 07:20 [#02192318]
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it means lucky.
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2008-04-08 07:20 [#02192319]
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It means you experienced bad luck except in US America where it means you experienced good luck--well, in books / articles written by Americans and featuring the phrase it's meant that.
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chaosmachine
from Ottawa (Canada) on 2008-04-08 07:22 [#02192320]
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in canada, it means lucky.
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Drunken Mastah
from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-04-08 07:26 [#02192321]
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Yeah, there's a UK/US difference that's probably attributable to the American people's general tendency to not understand irony.
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KEYFUMBLER
from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2008-04-08 07:49 [#02192328]
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"I couldn't care less" or
"I could care less"
either way.....
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2008-04-08 08:04 [#02192329]
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Be careful because defensive Americans will justify that on pedantically literal terms completely perverse to the figurative meaning of it.
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elusive
from detroit (United States) on 2008-04-08 08:22 [#02192332]
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see also: the tuss
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-04-08 08:51 [#02192340]
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lucked out means you ran out of luck, hence 'lucked, out'
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PORICK
from fucking IRELAND on 2008-04-08 09:08 [#02192359]
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yes
it's this UK/American difference that fascinates me - I can't imagine how it could naturally mean "lucky" to someone... It sounds too much like "out of luck" to me to mean that.. And anyhow, "out" usually carries negative connotations ("the in crowd", "en vogue", "out of fashion", etc etc)
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2008-04-08 09:15 [#02192364]
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Well this is a country where some states are perilously close to teaching Creationism as standard to their children.
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Drunken Mastah
from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-04-08 09:34 [#02192367]
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It's like
"maxed out"
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iiiiiiiiii
from Gloucester on 2008-04-08 10:42 [#02192383]
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when you hit jackpot on a bandit it 'pays out' = 'payed out' = 'lucked out' maybe?
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iiiiiiiiii
from Gloucester on 2008-04-08 10:46 [#02192385]
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btw i blame use of this phrase in the UK soley on that clip of the larry david show, and you know the one i mean. i've seen it a hundred times and i've never watched larry david.
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futureimage
from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-04-08 11:00 [#02192387]
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Lucky.
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plaidzebra
from so long, xlt on 2008-04-08 11:34 [#02192407]
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you're missing the context in which this phrase would be used in the united states. generally, if you were in a situation in which you expected something bad to happen to you, but the actual result was favorable, then you "lucked out."
"i was playing cards, and was dealt a very weak hand. but i lucked out; my hand still beat the others."
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hedphukkerr
from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-04-08 11:41 [#02192414]
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what plaidzebra said.
it's like getting out of what would normally have been a bad situation due to luck.
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earthleakage
from tell the world you're winning on 2008-04-08 12:06 [#02192424]
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more meaningless ambiguity and a prime example of the increasingly negative bastardisation of language. i would've guessed wrongly. if it was spoken word u may have been able to pick up on the meaning because of the sound, if it was written word it needs minimum an "and" or a "but" at least to give u more chance than flipping a coin.
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2008-04-08 12:28 [#02192431]
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lucked out = out of luck = bad luck
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010101
from Vancouver (Canada) on 2008-04-08 12:39 [#02192435]
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'Lucked Out' means to have got through a situation because of luck.
"'Things were looking really shit for a moment then but I LUCKED OUT on the river. Now I'm going to have sex with a really fat prostitute'. Said Gaundi as he scratched his scrotum, sniffed his fingers then collected his chips." - From Mahatmas' Hold 'Em Adventures by Barbara Cartland
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hedphukkerr
from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-04-08 12:47 [#02192437]
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hehe, from what i've read just now on a few other sites, it really is regional and entirely based on circumstance: "lucked out" can mean either to have had great fortune or to have run out of luck.
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010101
from Vancouver (Canada) on 2008-04-08 12:48 [#02192442]
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You are both wrong and right in the same post. Genius
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hedphukkerr
from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-04-08 12:54 [#02192445]
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zuh?
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PORICK
from fucking IRELAND on 2008-04-29 19:11 [#02199491]
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you sounded like me , in a previous incarnation, there
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darkpromenade
from Australia on 2008-04-29 19:22 [#02199498]
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To me it means that the results you experienced from a particular situation were due to luck, either good or bad, rather than from your own actions.
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thecurbcreeper
from United States on 2008-04-29 19:29 [#02199501]
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i've used the phrase both ways and never really thought about. it's not something i say often
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OK
on 2008-04-29 21:29 [#02199548]
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got out of a bad situation by luck
ran out of luck.
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rad smiles
on 2008-04-29 22:02 [#02199568]
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lucked out lucked in fucked out of luck
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earthleakage
from tell the world you're winning on 2008-04-29 22:13 [#02199577]
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just another excuse to point out a difference when it's clear what ppl mean. fuck you racist nationalist pricks.
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earthleakage
from tell the world you're winning on 2008-04-29 22:24 [#02199585]
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PORICK check yr other thread
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mimi
on 2008-04-29 22:26 [#02199587]
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he probably never uses slang
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earthleakage
from tell the world you're winning on 2008-04-29 22:34 [#02199591]
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you use visionary slang to suppose your own visual perception of yourself in yoru own avatar
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-04-29 22:48 [#02199605]
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Shhhh. Quiet time now.
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wimp
on 2008-04-30 00:19 [#02199636]
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that your luck did manifest in full and now it is spent. Hold out on lotto for a bit.
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