"strike it lucky" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-strike it lucky.ogg [Australia] Forms: strikes it lucky [present, singular, third-person], striking it lucky [participle, present], struck it lucky [participle, past], struck it lucky [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|strike<,,struck> it lucky}} strike it lucky (third-person singular simple present strikes it lucky, present participle striking it lucky, simple past and past participle struck it lucky)
  1. (idiomatic) To have unexpected good fortune. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: strike lucky
    Sense id: en-strike_it_lucky-en-verb-yFVS8wMI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it"

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