| 词源 |
lucky fluke. A fluke, in the sense of lucky things that happen to someone, is possibly from the dialect word flack, “a blow.” The word fluke here seems to come from billiards, where a fluke means aiming at one thing and hitting another, a lucky blow that is to your benefit. Lucky is redundant here, but is usu- ally yoked to fluke in the phrase. The expression dates back to the 19th century. |