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just my luck!

Definition

something that you say when something bad happens to you: They sold the last ticket five minutes before I got there - just my luck!Expressions of anger
(Definition of just my luck! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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