Why do people say lucked out.

[MikMaq]

Why do people say lucked out  when someone has good luck.

You fall in love, you fall out of society, your out of a job, out of work, you had a falling out, you can be told your in luck, with the in crowd, kicked out, locked out, your out of shape, out is always a bad and in is always good. Than why the fuck to people say lucked out. Getbiggers explain and I wanna hear some of you iq of 160 making 2mil  a year types answer this, woman and darkies need not apply.

[The Ugly]

Kick back, Seinfeld.

[Shockwave]

I think you're way over analyzing this.

[MikMaq]

I think you're way over analyzing this.

I suppose, I`m just tired of having to remember what the fuck lucking out means. I`m convinced it`s some gay conspiracy just trying to get people to come out of the closet.

[Irongrip400]

I notice a gross misuse of "your".

[MikMaq]

I notice a gross misuse of "your".

I care for logic not grammar so eat shit and die.

[The Ugly]

Because "luck in" just doesn't sound right.

[MikMaq]

Because "luck in" just doesn't sound right.

So instead we use a phrase that makes no logical sense, sounds typical of a cultural that is continually being destroyed by woman.

[The Ugly]

So instead we use a phrase that makes no logical sense, sounds typical of a cultural that is continually being destroyed by woman.

He's right, you may be overanalyzing this.

[Kahn.N.Singh]

I believe the expression 'lucked out' should be understood in the fuller sense of 'lucked out [of some dire situation].' So, to 'luck out' is to have gotten out of something through lucky means. Subsequently, the expression is misused if it does not take this nuanced distinction into account.

[The Ugly]

How about "taking a piss" when you're clearly GIVING one?

[MikMaq]

I believe the expression 'lucked out' should be understood in the fuller sense of 'lucked out [of some dire situation].' So, to 'luck out' is to have gotten out of something through lucky means. Subsequently, the expression is misused if it does not take this nuanced distinction into account.

Satisfactory answer  all I was looking for, no need to over analyze things .

[Irongrip400]

I care for logic not grammar so eat shit and die.

And all of your logic didn't bring you to the obvious conclusion that was explained a few posts back?  Now, you eat shit and die. 

[MikMaq]

And all of your logic didn't bring you to the obvious conclusion that was explained a few posts back?  Now, you eat shit and die. 

Don't take the eat shit and die personally, anyhow never heard it in it's proper use atleast not in a long time.

[SF1900]

I lucked out on not being Vince Goodrum

[tommywishbone]

I prefer, "Man, he always wins, he must have a lucky horseshoe stuck up his ass."

[BB]

I believe the expression 'lucked out' should be understood in the fuller sense of 'lucked out [of some dire situation].' So, to 'luck out' is to have gotten out of something through lucky means. Subsequently, the expression is misused if it does not take this nuanced distinction into account.

Yes, that's how I've always understood it. "Lucked into" was used to mean coming upon good fortune by chance, that term seems to have fallen somewhat out of favor.

[doison]

God I hope you die.

[Radical Plato]

I never fully understood luck, or peoples interpretation of it - when bad shit happens, people often say things like "Oh, you are lucky to be alive, or you are lucky it isn't much worse" I always just think it was bad luck the shitty thing happened in the first place.  I guess it all depends if your glass is half full or half empty - but i often say "If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all"

[Tapeworm]

is mostly used to indicate negative results in Australia.
 

True.  Confusion ensued.

[wes]

I wish I was lucky enough to have not read this thread! 

[RJ DRIVER]

The only 160+ IQ person around here is SMM and he's been driven off the boards, so we'll not get to hear his amazing commentary.

Nonetheless, here is something you may find interesting. From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage:

"According to Harper 1985, luck out was commonly used during World War II in some such sense as "to meet with bad luck; run out of luck," as in describing a soldier who was a casualty of battle ("He lucked out") or a poker player who lost his chips. The Harper panelists are asked if they think that the newer sense of luck out, "to succeed because of good luck," has now superseded the older sense. Most of them vote yes, but 26 percent vote no.

We find those "no" votes a bit peculiar, because have collected almost no evidence of the older sense cited by Harper. An entry for it can be found in Wentworth & Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang (1960), indicating that it had "some W.W. II use; some general use;" but have to wonder how common its use ever became. Several World War II veterans on the Harper panel have never heard of it, and our files include only a single citation:

Elementary school children get a day off Feb. 17. . . . Junior and Senior High Schools are lucked out. . . . Both will be in session. — Springfield (Mass.) Union, 31 Jan. 1958

The little evidence we have showing luck used as a verb during World War II is suggestive of good luck, not bad"

http://books.google.com/books?id=2yJusP0vrdgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA614#v=onepage&q&f=false

Apparently, it can be used to indicate good/bad results in England, and is mostly used to indicate negative results in Australia.

So, that explains a bit of the history of the expression, but asking a "why" question here is silly: there is no real answer as to why expressions organically evolve their meanings. It's not like some planning committee sat down and said, "from now on this word will mean ...."

This reeks of suckmymuscle onemorerepsbitch.  I'm on to you Melao!