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Tough luck

noun

An unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes. Synonyms: bad luck, ill luck, misfortune.

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"Tough luck" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cleve, "that's certainly tough luck—all this way from home. I'll have to pay you in Federal Reserve bills. The ...

— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath

... soothed the doctor. "I appreciate the fact that it is pretty tough luck, Dobson, but you'll have to take your medicine. Falkner, if you'll lend a hand in getting me off I won't lose much time ...

— Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • James Oliver Curwood

... had the tough luck to run into six of the rough-necks, just outside of the little town, where they'd been drinking. I never heard the name of one of that outfit. We weren't acquainted at all. Strange how they changed my soldier career, right at the start! This ...

— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey

... it isn't a word, I invent it. It's awfully tough luck for you, and if you want me to I'll own up to the crowd that I can't swing you, but if you are willing to stick, why, we'll fix up some kind of a way to cut down ...

— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley

... that 'as done me stretch fer stoushin' Johns, An' spen's me leisure gittin' on the shick, An' 'arf me nights down there, in Little Lon., Wiv Ginger Mick, Jist 'eadin' 'em, an' doing in me gilt. Tough luck! I s'pose it's ...

— The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke • C. J. Dennis

Words linked to "Tough luck" : bad luck, gutter, hard knocks, good luck, misfortune, good fortune, lot, fate, fortune, ill luck, luck, adversity, portion, hard cheese, toilet, circumstances, sewer, hardship, weakness, destiny