lap of the gods
Example Sentences
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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
I accept that my lap is in the lap of the gods.
From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2018
And when you hit that shot, where it ends up is in the lap of the gods.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 13, 2018
"Really the government's fate is in the lap of the gods, or rather in the lap of global economic trends," said Adrian Kavanagh, a politics lecturer at Maynooth University.
From Reuters • Dec. 13, 2013
You must just look on this past month as a holiday snatched from the lap of the gods, and realize, what you're always telling me, that what one's once had one has for always.
From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
