fall to someone's lot
(Redirected from fall to one's lot)
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]fall to someone's lot (third-person singular simple present falls to someone's lot, present participle falling to someone's lot, simple past fell to someone's lot, past participle fallen to someone's lot)
- (intransitive, dated) To be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.
- Synonym: fall to someone's share
- 1859, Charles Dickens, Hunted Down:
- It did not fall to his lot to save her, though I know he would freely give his own life to have done it.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 50”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- I should think he earned ten thousand a year, and his knighthood was but the first of the honours which must inevitably fall to his lot.
Further reading
[edit]- “fall to someone's lot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.