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ДВАДЦАТЬ ДВА НЕСЧАСТЬЯ coll, humor NP Invar fixed WO

a person experiencing a long period of bad luck, a series of failures

a walking catastrophe

(in limited contexts) trouble and he (she etc) are never far apart an accident (a disaster) waiting to happen. (source) (Дуняша:) Человек он несчастливый, каждый день что-нибудь. Его так и дразнят у нас: двадцать два несчастья... (Чехов 2). I context transl ) (D.:) He's an unlucky fellow

every day something happens to him. They tease him about it around here

they call him Two-and-twenty Troubles (2a).

The nickname of a character in Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard («Вишневый сад»), 1903.