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> 何さ、いやな人たちだね。こんな家に生まれてきたのが **運のツキ** だよ。  
>  What!? I'm an unpleasant person am I? To be born in a house such as this
> ...

Bit confused by the part in bold. 運 means "luck" and ツキ can also mean "luck".
So is this "luck of lucks"? Is it a sarcastic comment "Lucky me, to be born in
a house such as this"?

If so, do Japanese people tend to use sarcasm often?
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expressions set-phrases colloquial-language
Meaning and usage of 運のツキ
運のツキ literally means "to have run out of luck". The ツキ refers to 尽き which
means "to come to an end"
([source](http://www.fleapedia.com/%E4%BA%94%E5%8D%81%E9%9F%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9/%E3%81%86/%E9%81%8B%E3%81%AE%E5%B0%BD%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF%E4%BD%95%E3%81%8B/)).
It means that one's good luck or fortune is over, i.e. no more good things can
happen after that. It's like "being doomed".

The sentence's meaning becomes something like "I was already unlucky by being
born in this house" or "my fate was already sealed by being born in this
house". So no, it's not sarcastic.

(More information about this sentence would be helpful. It looks like it's
someone describing the people in his/her household as unpleasant, but if
that's the case the translation is not very appropriate)
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