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down upon one's luck

down upon one's luck is the alternative form of down on one's luck.

Meaning of down on one's luck

Adjective

down on one's luck (comparative more down on one's luck, superlative most down on one's luck)

  1. (idiomatic) Unlucky or undergoing a period of bad luck, especially with respect to financial matters.
    • I'm sorry to hear you are down on your luck ;1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published...

Forms of down upon one's luck

comparativemore down upon one's luck
superlativemost down upon one's luck

Questions about down upon one's luck

What is down upon one's luck the alternative form of?
Down upon one's luck is the alternative form of down on one's luck.

Words near down upon one's luck in the dictionary

  1. down train
  2. down trains
  3. down tube
  4. down tubes
  5. down under
  6. down upon one's luck
  7. down with
  8. down with one's dust
  9. down with the dust
  10. down with the kids
  11. Down's

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