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Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got.
It had been a bad break coming across this girl.
They lost the third game, and then got another bad break at the start of the fourth.
It was a bad break for Lowe because of what happened next.
It is a bad break in the circle, as a rule, when they do.
"I had a lot of bad breaks out there today."
You sound like a good guy who's had some bad breaks.
But it was a bad break, and they had to operate.
At worst, a bad break would mean torture and death.
"A bad break can get a team out of there."
"We were doing our best and had some rotten bad luck."
We'd have done just fine on our own, if it hadn't been for rotten bad luck.
He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century.
It's no wonder they all have such rotten luck with men.
All right, he was sorry; rotten luck to come home only to be told that your mom had died.
Rotten luck, but you appear to be in good health otherwise.
It was symbolic, so to speak, of his rotten luck.
He further wrote "as rotten luck would have it there was a newspaper strike which started just a few days before we opened."
That little trip across the park had made all the difference; I told you it was rotten luck.
"If he's so great a wizard, why do we have such rotten luck?"
Idiome