born loser

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born loser (plural born losers)

  1. (informal, often derogatory) A person who is habitually unsuccessful or unlucky or who is prejudged to be a failure in life, especially one with a defeatist outlook.
    • 1940 September 29, “Letters Reveal Ordeals in France”, in New York Times, page 12:
      I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him.
    • 1976 July 12, “The Corps on Trial”, in Time:
      A born loser and high school dropout from Lufkin, Texas, McClure had been rejected by the Army and Air Force.
    • 2016, Jack Chapman, Prodigal Son:
      "Brain-dead kids. Born losers. No-hopers the lot of 'em. I mean, as a taxpayer, what do they effin' teach 'em in school these days? I ask you!"

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