The clinic just happens to be an extreme hard-luck case.

Kopp had a reputation for being a hard-luck case, so naturally he didn't make it all the way to the braking field.

With its shimmering swimming pool, manicured gardens and well-kept buildings, the development does not look like a hard-luck case.

But the Vietnamese tend to be hard-luck cases to begin with, and they have a fastidious, catlike attitude about their chow.

Harvesting the Needy That leaves Enron the hard-luck cases.

Almost anyone with a hard-luck case would get a loan, not always repaying it.

The last thing they want to do is appear as a hard-luck case in a newspaper article.

You can't pass every hard-luck case by.

The protagonist is a likable hard-luck case with major women troubles and a taste for risky search-and-rescue missions.

But, look, I'm not a hard-luck case.