dame fortune
Fickle lady luck
Dame Fortune is a personification of luck or fate as a capricious woman who bestows favor or misfortune unpredictably.
The phrase comes from classical mythology's goddess Fortuna, often depicted with a wheel she spins to determine human destinies: Dame Fortune smiled on us that day.
The expression is literary and old-fashioned, typically used with irony or whimsy.
- stroke of luckFortunate unexpected occurrence
- chance encounterUnintended crossing of paths
- roll of the diceRandom chance outcome
- luck of the drawOutcome beyond control
- blind luckUnearned good fortune
Fortuna · Karma · Providence · Probability · Predestination · twist of fate · Lady Luck · Kismet · hand of fate · Hazard · against all odds · Nemesis · winds of change · Stoicism · Lot · Existentialism · Destiny · Destiny
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Deserved praise-worthiness
skill · hard work · effort · human agency · self-determination
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Adverse circumstance or event
bad luck · cruel fate · doom · nemesis · calamity
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