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horseshoe up one's ass
名詞
- (vulgar, idiomatic) Exceptionally favorable personal luck.
- 2001, Louisa Ermelino, The Black Madonna: Una Storia di Famiglia, →ISBN, p. 36 (Google preview):
But Mary Ziganetti shook her head. "Teresa never had the luck. Some people, they got a horseshoe up their ass, but not Teresa." - 2010 July 8, "Dave Mustaine's Autobiography Tells 'A Story That Will Inspire, Stun And Terrify', blabbermouth.net (retrieved 1 Feb 2019):
METALLICA frontman James Hetfield once observed that Mustaine must have been born with a horseshoe up his ass. That's how lucky he has been. - 2014, Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest, →ISBN, (Google preview):
The next thing I knew, she'd run off to the roulette table, slapped some of her money down on the number 22, and the rest was history. This girl had a major horseshoe up her ass. Nineteen-thousand dollars.
- 2001, Louisa Ermelino, The Black Madonna: Una Storia di Famiglia, →ISBN, p. 36 (Google preview):
使用する際の注意点
- Often used in contexts which suggest resentment of the favorable luck so described. In this respect, similar to born with a silver spoon in one's mouth: it implicitly deprecates the person so described, connoting unearned assets, and the term would generally not be used as self-description.
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