happy-go-lucky

Definitions

1. 1

   carefree or untroubled

2. 2

   One who is happy-go-lucky.

   • Now, both these kids are your friends, but one is mature and responsible, taking his time to understand what he is doing and why he is doing it, and the other friend is a happy-go-lucky, who just lets things happen to him.
   • Sara was presumably the “desperate” girl and Thomas the “happy-go-lucky” who would be vindicated once Sara's baby was born “too soon,” less than nine months after their encounter
   • Suppose our 'happy-go-luckies' get sea sick.
3. 3

   A person who does odd jobs.

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   1. 4

      As luck will have it.

      • You have nothing to fear ; you have your twenty guineas in your pocket for helping me into my service, and if I get into Mrs. Martha's quarters, you have a hundred more ; if into the widow's, fifty : — happy go lucky !

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