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

For the rest the child's fate was in the lap of the gods.

From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell