with (any) luck
idiom
: if one is lucky
With (any) luck there'll still be some tickets left when we arrive.
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One non-negotiable, whichever white button-down shirt gets pulled from the mix: a good stain remover, and, with any luck, a suitcase with just enough room to bring another home with me.
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Rebekah Peppler, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2023
By that time Starshot will likely have cost billions of dollars and, with any luck, have collected collaborators in governments, labs and space agencies in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
In fact, while some of the city’s current surplus can be credited to careful planning and preparation, a lot of it also had to do with luck, Gold said.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
You're emotionally uplifted by a sense of soul satisfaction as the moon aligns with luck planet Jupiter.
—USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
Trees can’t heal quite the way animals do, but with luck, this damage will remain minor and not cause significant dieback.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
Even with luck on his side, Purdy still tossed an interception against Detroit.
—Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
The new tags are solar-powered, are less obtrusive and, with luck, should last a year or more.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
But authors have to pay a fee, often hundreds of dollars for a single image, to reproduce them in a work that will be read by, with luck, ten or twenty thousand people.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
Rebekah Peppler, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2023
By that time Starshot will likely have cost billions of dollars and, with any luck, have collected collaborators in governments, labs and space agencies in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
In fact, while some of the city’s current surplus can be credited to careful planning and preparation, a lot of it also had to do with luck, Gold said.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
You're emotionally uplifted by a sense of soul satisfaction as the moon aligns with luck planet Jupiter.
—USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
Trees can’t heal quite the way animals do, but with luck, this damage will remain minor and not cause significant dieback.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
Even with luck on his side, Purdy still tossed an interception against Detroit.
—Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
The new tags are solar-powered, are less obtrusive and, with luck, should last a year or more.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
But authors have to pay a fee, often hundreds of dollars for a single image, to reproduce them in a work that will be read by, with luck, ten or twenty thousand people.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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