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2021-07-09 02:07
Cattywampus American informal
It's also phrase as "catawampus".
Used to describe something that is not quite straight, ordered or in the right position
This picture is cattywampus compared to others.
The box looks cattywampus, doesn't it?
Used to describe someone or something that is diagonal to someone or something else
The park is cattywampus to my house.
Cattywampus is a variant of catawampus, an American slang from the 19th century. In addition to “askew”, catawampus may refer to “an imaginary fierce wild animal,” or may mean “savage, destructive.”
Do you see anything wrong?
If a person has the devil's own luck, he or she has extremely good luck.
A: Yesterday I won a $10 million lottery jackpot and today I won a car in a draw.
B: You have the devil's own luck.
