Fucked by the fickle finger of fate vulgar slang
If someone is fucked by the fickle finger of fate, they have gone through an unlucky situation.
I closed my newly-opened restaurant due to the pandemic. I was fucked by the fickle finger of fate.
To encounter bad luck, or being picked doing something undesirable
If someone cuts a sorry figure, he or she creates an unfavourable impression to others or causes others to regard him or her unfavourably.
Lisa cut a sorry figure at the job interview