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Avoir du bol (to be lucky)

Avoir du bol (to be lucky)

The French expression avoir du bol translates literally to “to have some bottom” and means “to be lucky”.

avoir du bol

to be lucky

Avoir du bol - to be lucky

Example sentences

J’ai gagné au loto et j’ai vraiment du bol !

I won the lottery and I’m really lucky!

T’as du bol ! Qu’est-ce que t’as fait pour trouver une maison si belle ?

You’re lucky! What did you to to find such a beautiful house?

Origin

According to linternaute.fr, the word bol and pot (pot) mean “bottocks” in slang. In the figurative sense they both mean “luck”. Hence, an equivalent expression is avoir du pot.

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