buzzards’ luck
n.— «I’m still convinced we have a very good team, capable of beating anyone on a given day, but we’re justing having buzzards’ luck. Everything that happens seems to be a disaster.» —“There’s Nothing Super About Steelers Anymore” by Charles Maher Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 1976. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Los Angeles, California, listener shares the following pangram, a succinct but understandable statement that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: A quick fox jumps high / Vexing birds, zigzag winds fly / Haikus trap words, why? This is part of...
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...