better luck

collocation in English

meaningsofbetterandluck

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better
adjective
uk
/ˈbet.ər/us
/ˈbet̬.ɚ/
comparative of good: of a higher standard, or more suitable, pleasing, or effective than other things ...
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luck
noun[U]
uk
/lʌk/us
/lʌk/
the force that causes things, especially good things, to happen to you by chance and not as a result of your own efforts ...
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(Definition ofbetterandluckfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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You cannot win everything; we may havebetterlucknext time.
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I hope he hasbetterluckin the courts than here.
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If he will leave it now he may havebetterluckin a moment or two.
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I hope forbetterluckthis time.
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We wish the right honourable gentlemanbetterluckthan many of his predecessors have had.
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We hope forbetterluckthis time.
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I hope he will havebetterluckthis time.
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I hope that they have a littlebetterluckthan we have had.
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I wish him slightlybetterlucknext year, so that we may conduct the debate at a slightly earlier hour of the morning.
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I hope, with all my heart, that our negotiators havebetterluckin this respect than we did.
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I hope that they will havebetterluckthis year.
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I hope that the ombudsman hasbetterluck.
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I hope that no harm has been done to this cause by raising it this year and that, perhaps, next year we may havebetterluck.
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We can only hope thatbetterluck—if that is the right term—will await us so far as our future endeavours to raise the necessary crops and supplies are concerned.
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Just as the bonze said, people in the house experiencedbetterluckgradually.
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Then she hadbetterluckin the second game and was credited with the victory.
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As the tradition goes, the earlier they offer the incense, thebetterluckthey will have that year.
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Bunker hadbetterluckrobbing banks in real life than he did in the movies.
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Your master will havebetterluckhereafter and the bonze disappeared.
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The character ("mori") means protection, and this change was perhaps made to seekbetterluckfor the theater, and protection from fire and from bankruptcy.
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