Eslinger luck could be considered as putting in enough work to get yourself to the finish line, spilling your heart out into the objective and then getting tripped at the finish line and only getting second place or third place to someone who didn't deserve it.
"He has some Eslinger luck. He was about to win but broke his leg half way through the race.
To start a sentence strong but in one's pursuit of the most appropriate words, linger for way too long, frequently to the point of not finishing it. Speakers who erlinger are typically obsessed with sounding eloquent or fluent but ironically this very obsession prevents them from attaining their goal.
He wanted to talk about the ridiculousness of his assignment but I neveractually learned what was so bad about it because he erlingered halfway through his rant.
n. software that is no longer sold or supported by the original publisher / developer, often found as free downloads on the internet because it cannot be obtained elsewhere. Not legal, but often seen as morally acceptable because the company that made it is no longer selling the title, nor releasing it as freeware, therefore abandonware is "keeping the gamealive", so to speak.
Doom II is not abandonware because idstill sells it, while The Incredible Machine is not sold, therefore is abandonware.