down on one's luck
adjDefinitions
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 ;
- If Crabtree is down on his luck he will most likely be willing to do anything for money.
- He is down on his luck. He asked me to ask you to ask somebody named Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.
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