buzzard’s luck

buzzard’s luck
 n.— «Something called Buzzard’s Luck continues to plague the National League baseball team.…“Buzzard’s Luck is when you can’t kill anything and nothing will die.”» —“Houston plagued by ‘Buzzard Luck’” in Houston, Texas Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Can.) June 15, 1977. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Join the discussion

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Further reading

Blessing Box (episode #1613)

Is there such a thing as a “neutral” accent, and if so what does it sound like? And that quirk in the way southern Californians talk about freeways. They’ll say things like take the 405 and get on the 8. Why the definite article...