tasan ei käy onnen lahjat

Finnish

Etymology

From the Finnish translation of The Tales of Ensign Stål (original by Johan Ludvig Runeberg); the original Swedish text was ojämnt falla ödets lotter (“unevenly fall the lots of fate”) (the Finnish term is, however, not a calque).

Proverb

tasan ei käy onnen lahjat

1. not everyone is blessed with luck