fall to someone's lot

fall to someone's lot (third-person singular simple present falls to one's lot, present participle falling to one's lot, simple past fell to one's lot, past participle fallen to one's lot)

1. (intransitive, dated) To be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, Hunted Down:

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

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 50

     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.

   Synonym: fall to someone's share

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