You are Such an Idiomatic Luck-Out

I have been meaning to add my two cents to the topic of some posts about the phrasal verb "luck out" that have been making the rounds. The gist of the posts is the question of whether "lucking out" is a good thing or a bad thing.

Here is the background:

Language Log's "Lucking out"

Language Log's "More lucking out"

Superlinguo's "Lucking out"

TYWKIWDBI's "'Lucking out' can be good -- or bad."

The answer to my semantic interpretation of "luck out" can be found in my response to Superlinguo's post, which follows:

"Lucking out" was always a positive in my youth. Its use was so common in Michigan that many people turned the phrasal verb into a noun. "You got a pony for your birthday...you are such a luck-out."

Upon further analysis, I thought to compare "luck out" to some other idiomatic phrasal verbs that end in "out".

Here is what I came up with:

crap out

drop out

poop out

run out

stamp out

wipe out

wash out

For some reason, I could not think of one example that carries a positive semantic interpretation.

I wonder if that could be part of the reason that some people think of lucking out as a negative.