"My life followed the shifting fortunes of the war." What are shifting fortunes? I tried to understand the meaning by looking up definitions of 'fortune' in dictionaries to no avail. Please help. Thanks. Hiro
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Shifting fortunes = changing luck; from lucky to unlucky to lucky, etc.
— Mister Micawber
Shifting fortunes = changing luck; from lucky to unlucky to lucky, etc.
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