Idiom of the Day
have a run of bad luck
to have a period of bad luck
My uncle had a run of bad luck and he lost his business as well as his house.
Fact
In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen (Cymbeline), with 591 lines.
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