Meaning of OUT OF LUCK - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So, in English, when you are out of luck
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it means that you can't get the thing that you want
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because there aren't any more of them.
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At least, that's one definition of it.
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So, maybe you go to the store
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because you really want to buy a can of Coca-Cola.
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Maybe you really like drinking Coke.
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And you go to the store, and you walk into the store,
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and you go to the cooler where they keep the Coca-Cola
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nice and cold, and there's none left.
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And you go to the owner of the store
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and you say, "I really wanted to buy some Coca-Cola today."
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The store owner might say, "I'm sorry, you're out of luck.
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"There is none left.
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"We have sold all of the cans and bottles of Coke.
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"There is no more.
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"You are out of luck."
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So, basically, what that means is the opposite
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of being lucky.
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When you're lucky, things go your way.
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When you are out of luck,
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things are going the opposite of your way.
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They're going really, really badly.
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So, we have the opposite phrase as well.
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To be in luck.
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In the same story, you might go to the store owner
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and say, "I really wanted to buy some Coke today,
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"and you don't have any Coca-Cola left."
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And the store owner might say, "You're out of luck."
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But he could also say, "Oh, you're in luck,
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"I have some more in the back storage room."
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So, as much as you can sometimes be out of luck,
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sometimes, you can also be in luck,
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and things can go your way.
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One last term with luck.
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You can also have bad luck.
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When you have bad luck, it means that
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things throughout your day just don't go very good at all.
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So, hopefully, you always have good luck.
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Hopefully, you always are in luck.
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And hopefully, you are never out of luck,
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as you go through your day in the future.
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