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hard luck!

mainly UK

Definition

used to express sympathy to someone because something slightly bad has happened: "We lost again." "Oh, hard luck!"Sympathy and compassionGood luck and bad luck
(Definition of hard luck! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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