Русско-англо-русский юридический словарь

‘Outrageous fortune��� is a phrase that appears in the famous ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. [...] Sometimes when something unpleasant happens in our lives – something unexpected and unwelcome – we may refer to it as ‘outrageous fortune.’ That’s the way Hamlet sees it too. We should link the phrase with another – ‘the slings and arrows,’ so we have the quotation ‘the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.’ (nosweatshakespeare.com)

Throughout his decade in European football, Coutinho has been a kind of footballing Forrest Gump, the playmaker in the background of history, as disorder and outrageous fortune have shadowed his progress. What I’m saying is: weird stuff follows him around. (The Guardian)