lap of the gods
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"We turn out 220 lambs expecting to get 160 back - at £150 a lamb we're in the lap of the gods until we gather."
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025
And when you hit that shot, where it ends up is in the lap of the gods.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2018
"It's all in the lap of the gods as to whether they follow it through properly," he said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 14, 2017
But it’s in the lap of the gods, not Noel Gallagher, as much as he’d like to think he’s a bit of a god, but he ain’t… Cos I’ve seen him coming for years.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2017
It is easy to promise to win back for you everything you have abandoned, but as the poets say, 'All that lies in the lap of the gods.'
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
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