horseshoe up one's ass
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horseshoe up one's ass
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To have something up one's ass (= stowed there) is (in cynical jocular formulation) to have it on hand and available despite the unlikelihood of being so equipped. (You're going to patch that tire right now, out here? What, do you have a patch kit up your ass?) A horseshoe is a traditional good luck charm in folklore. Thus, to have a horseshoe up one's ass is to have an unlikely amount of luck and to carry it around continuously in a way that seems unexpected.
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- Exceptionally favorable personal luck. But Mary Ziganetti shook her head. "Teresa never had the luck. Some people, they got a horseshoe up their ass, but not Teresa."
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