luck out
verb:intransitive:plus_adverb
(US) tener un golpe de suerte I really lucked out - I had the whole place to myself he figured the damage to the car would not be discovered till the morning - but he lucked out because the car's owners were out of town she sold tea on the sidewalk, cleaned gardens, carried water for a builder, then lucked out with better-paid work cooking for a household of foreign journalists a working-class lad who fell into pop music and lucked out in a big way
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