bad luck : Embarrassment, misery, famine.
Bad luck (boredom, bad luck). What bad luck ! Another breakdown.
It's bad luck!
To bring bad luck: bring bad luck.
But where does this slang term come from? hoodoo ?
Pitch was a kind of viscous glue made from pine resin, fir resin or wood tar. It is from this substance that the verb was born stick (“to coat with pitch”) in the XNUMXth century and from this verb that the hoodoo was drawn with, in its figurative sense of "bad luck" (at the beginning of the XNUMXth century), an allusion to this material which one cannot manage to get rid of, as it is difficult to get rid of it (as they say in Provence ) of persistent bad luck.
According to Gaston Esnault, this phrase first appeared in the slang of cyclists.