lucky dip

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lucky dip (plural lucky dips)

  1. (UK) A game in which prizes are covered up and mixed together in a container, so that contestants can dip their hand into the container and randomly pull out a prize.
  2. (by extension, idiomatic, figuratively) A selection solely at random.
    • 2005 September, “Dome sale 'was like a lucky dip'”, in BBC News[1]:

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