what bad luck vs what a bad luck

Both phrases are not correct. The correct phrase is "What bad luck!". The use of the article 'a' before 'bad luck' is incorrect in this context.

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what bad luck

This phrase is not correct. The correct form is "What bad luck!"

The correct phrase is an exclamation used to express sympathy or commiseration with someone who has experienced an unfortunate event.

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What bad luck, old chap.
What bad luck for us.
What bad luck I have!
I'll tell you what bad luck is, Andy.
Or I'll show you what bad luck is!
My... What bad luck seems to follow your family around.
What bad luck brings you here, Chow-Ping?
What bad luck! What was purple at Bosco and near Pine-Huose?
What bad luck today.
What bad luck tonight.
What bad luck, though.

what a bad luck

This phrase is not correct. The correct form is "What bad luck!"

The use of the article 'a' before 'bad luck' is incorrect in this context. The correct phrase is an exclamation used to express sympathy or commiseration with someone who has experienced an unfortunate event.

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What a run of bad luck he's had.
Bad luck doesn't make you a bad guy.
It was bad luck, not a bad call.
A bad luck made so that the elected died.
It is a bad luck for us... we have to bury him.
Not a good place to be with a bad luck twin like me.
Alamo Brewhouse was just bad luck.
Breaking wedding china's bad luck.
Guillermo Parada, skipper: It was a bad finish for the week obviously having to abandon a race after breaking a stay.But now we have had our share of bad luck.
This woman comes from a family with unusually high fertility rates, but she's got a bad luck streak, can't have kids.
Stop and think, all parents of children with disabilities, have a lots of problems in accepting the disability of their child, lived fundamentally as a bad luck.
Sometimes bad luck is just bad luck.
Lemongrass, in the tradition of witchcraft, is used to keep out evil and break the bad luck or bad luck.
We had bad luck today, Colonel Bampfylde but we can have better luck tomorrow.
At last good luck and bad luck were pictured as having their respective controllers.
Do you believe in bad luck?
Women are incapable of being bad luck by themselves.
Honestly, what happened to him was bad luck.
It's probably why I've had such bad luck with men.
Just bad luck, that's all.

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