luck of the draw
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An allusion to the random manner in which playing cards are distributed or "drawn" in many card games.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]luck of the draw (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) The random production of favorable or unfavorable results; chance.
- 1996 May 21, Carey Goldberg, “Best-Selling Author, but Not at Home”, in New York Times, retrieved 8 June 2013:
- [I]s it merely the luck of the draw that turns some novels into blockbusters and others of equal merit into also-rans?
- 2005 August 10, “What You Need to Know on Smoking and Lung Cancer”, in Time:
- If you've never been a smoker and you develop lung cancer, how did you get it? Is it genetics, environment, radon, luck of the draw?
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “luck of the draw”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.