hostages to fortune

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

hostages to fortune pl (plural only)

  1. A man's wife, children, etc.
    • 2004, Larry L. Meyer, No Paltry Thing: Memoirs of a Geezer Dad, page 26:
      Stay home, keep house for my three newest hostages to fortune, and write while I waited for my modest pensions to kick in.

References[edit]

  • 1908, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary.
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