fall to someone's lot

English

Verb

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)

1. (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

• “fall to someone's lot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.