Learn English – English Equivalent of phrase “Whose face did you see in the morning?”

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In hindi, we use the above phrase (in hindi, obviously) as a response to someone having a bad day, bad luck.

e.g. –

Person 1: I'm having a bad day. I have been followed by a velociraptor
the entire day.

Person 2: Whoa, dude! Whose face did you see the first thing in the
morning?

I tried searching for the above phrase (and its variations) but did not get any result except some weird memes.

Best Answer

I don't think there is one 'go to' phrase which people use in this situation, so much as they would paraphrase various superstitions about things reputed to cause bad luck. Three which spring to mind are

  • walking under a ladder

  • breaking a mirror

    or

  • having a black cat cross your path

    So you might say in response to:

    I'm having a bad day. I have been followed by a velociraptor the entire day.

Woah, dude! How many mirrors did you break/ladders did you walk under on your way to work?

For black cats, because it is a bit clumsy somehow to say 'Did a black cat cross your path?' many Brits might make a joke of it with 'How many black cats did you kick on your way in?'

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