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There is LUCK in leisure
It is often advisable to wait before acting.
1683
Yorkshire Dialogue
9
There's luck in Leizur.
1859
Fisher's River
vii.
Thinks I, ‘There's luck in leisure,’ as I've hearn folks say …So I jist waited a spell.
1936
While Murder Waits
xxii.
‘You …won't decide now?’ .. ‘There's luck in leisure, Victoria.’
patience and impatience
;
procrastination
1683Yorkshire Dialogue
9
There's luck in Leizur.
1859
Fisher's River
vii.
Thinks I, ‘There's luck in leisure,’ as I've hearn folks say …So I jist waited a spell.
1936
While Murder Waits
xxii.
‘You …won't decide now?’ .. ‘There's luck in leisure, Victoria.’
patience and impatience;
procrastination
There is LUCK in odd numbers
A superstition similar to that in
THIRD time lucky.
Cf. VIRGIL
Eclogues
viii. 75 numero deus impare gaudet, the god delights in an uneven number.
1598
Merry Wives of Windsor
v. i. 3
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
1837
Rory O'More
I. (
title-page
)
‘There's luck in odd numbers,’ says Rory O'More.
1883
Thicker than Water
I. i.
She was .. by no means averse to a third experiment in matrimony …‘There was luck in odd numbers’.
1963
Day of Adder
i.
You can make that five then …There's luck in odd numbers.
luck
;
superstition
THIRD time lucky.
Cf. VIRGIL
Eclogues
viii. 75 numero deus impare gaudet, the god delights in an uneven number.
1598Merry Wives of Windsor
v. i. 3
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
1837
Rory O'More
I. (
title-page
)
‘There's luck in odd numbers,’ says Rory O'More.
1883
Thicker than Water
I. i.
She was .. by no means averse to a third experiment in matrimony …‘There was luck in odd numbers’.
1963
Day of Adder
i.
You can make that five then …There's luck in odd numbers.
luck;
superstition
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