Meaning of fall to someone's lot | Babel Free

Definitions

To be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.

dated, intransitive

Examples

“It did not fall to his lot to save her, though I know he would freely give his own life to have done it.”

“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.”

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