"down on one's luck" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more down on one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most down on one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 28, in The Rover Boys in Business",
          "text": "If Crabtree is down on his luck he will most likely be willing to do anything for money.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": ", Episode 16",
          "text": "--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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954 April 19, “The New Pictures”, in Time",
          "text": "Willie \"tries to resist\"—being, as the synopsis explains, \"an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 July 1, Mel Antonen, “Rays, A's using same formula for success”, in USA Today, retrieved 2008-11-03",
          "text": "Pitcher Kyle Lohse, 29, who has had unsuccessful stints with the Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies, seems to have found a home with the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that has a knack for turning around pitchers down on their luck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Unlucky or undergoing a period of bad luck, especially with respect to financial matters."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Unlucky",
          "unlucky"
        ],
        [
          "undergo",
          "undergo"
        ],
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Unlucky or undergoing a period of bad luck, especially with respect to financial matters."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "down on one's luck"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more down on one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most down on one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 28, in The Rover Boys in Business",
          "text": "If Crabtree is down on his luck he will most likely be willing to do anything for money.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": ", Episode 16",
          "text": "--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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954 April 19, “The New Pictures”, in Time",
          "text": "Willie \"tries to resist\"—being, as the synopsis explains, \"an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 July 1, Mel Antonen, “Rays, A's using same formula for success”, in USA Today, retrieved 2008-11-03",
          "text": "Pitcher Kyle Lohse, 29, who has had unsuccessful stints with the Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies, seems to have found a home with the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that has a knack for turning around pitchers down on their luck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Unlucky or undergoing a period of bad luck, especially with respect to financial matters."
      ],
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        [
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          "unlucky"
        ],
        [
          "undergo",
          "undergo"
        ],
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Unlucky or undergoing a period of bad luck, especially with respect to financial matters."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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