fisherman's luck

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Noun

fisherman's luck (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Failure to catch any fish.
    • 1940, George Walter Goodhart, The Pioneer Life of George W. Goodhart:
      The girls caught quite a long string of fine big trout, but I had fisherman's luck and had to eat fish that the girls caught that night.