ill luck

• ill-luck

ill luck (uncountable)

1. Bad luck; misluck; misfortune.
   • 1961 September, “Background to the new winter timetables of the East Coast”, in Modern Railways, page 528:

     Then, as we have reported, bogie defects came to light on the first few production "Deltics" [...]; these have now been remedied, but inevitably deliveries, trial running and particularly crew training were retarded as a result, so that once again ill luck has dogged the East Coast Route timetable planners.

• “ill luck”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.