Jouer de malheur = To have a run of ill-luck.
Jouer serré = To act cautiously; To leave nothing to chance.
Jour
Ces gens vivent au jour le jour = Those men live from day to day, from hand to mouth.
*À chaque jour suffit sa peine = Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Je suis à jour = I am up to date; I am not behind in my work.
*Tôt ou tard la vérité se fait jour = Sooner or later the truth will come out.
C’est le jour et la nuit = They are as different as chalk and cheese.
Il n’est si long jour qui ne vienne à vêpres =
“Be the day weary, be the day long,
At length it ringeth to evensong.”
[From a poem by Stephen Hawes, a poet of the reign of Henry VII.