Brewer's: Devil's Luck

(The). Astounding good luck. Persons always lucky were thought at one time to have compounded with the Devil.

“You won't have to pay his annuity very long; you have the Devil's luck in bargains, always.” -

Dickens.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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