Sentence examples for get lucky about from inspiring English sources

When they get lucky, about one in 20, they trumpet: "We told you first".

We can see that declarer was about to get lucky but worried about a 4-1 spade break, East led dummy's club jack and discarded a heart.

It looks as if horse racing is about to get lucky again.

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On an album packed with grand sonic gestures – episodic tracks that lurch from electronics to Broadway showtune to high-camp disco to balladry – there's nothing showy about Get Lucky's sound at all, just a succession of small, subtle pleasures: the way Nile Rodgers' distinctive guitar weaves intricately around the electric piano, Williams' conversational "look …" before the first bridge.

The striking thing about Get Lucky and Blurred Lines was that they achieved their omnipotence without cleaving to the blueprint that's had a stranglehold on the charts in the last few years: both turned up without a hint of rave synthesiser, vocals slathered in Auto-Tune effects or dubstep-inspired electronic grind.

Here's the other thing about going down, anatomically speaking, to get a rise out of everyone: Back in the days when having a handsome face was enough to get lucky, if nobody cared about your personality, at least you were still being noticed for distinguishing features.

You can fight it, go on the defensive, make disparaging claims about "Get Lucky" being a rehash of every Chic song ever written, and describe Random Access Memories as nothing more than the bloated experiment of two overfunded Studio 54-fetishists.

West correctly guessed that South was about to get lucky.

Seems like a pretty stupid question considering what I was doing and the equipment I was using, so I consider that I'm about to get lucky and end up with a Saturday night date.

The details won't be revealed here, but suffice it to say that Mr. Davies weirdly goes for poignancy and prurience: Lucy is back in Italy, alone, and a minor character from earlier in the story looks as if he might be about to get lucky.