单词 | the lot falls to |
释义 | > as lemmasthe lot falls to—— a. the lot falls on—— (also the lot falls to——, and variants): —— is selected by lot, fate, etc. (to do something).In quot. c1400 †the lot limps on——: cf. limp v.1 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > choose or get by lot > a person or thing is chosen by lot the lot falls on——OE OE Nativity of Virgin (Hatton) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 130 Ða gefeoll þæt hlot ofer Iudan cyn, Iacobes sunu. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 621 Affterr þatt hiss lott himm fell. To þewwtenn i þe temmple. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 194 And ay þe lote vpon laste lymped on Jonas. a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 2048 Þis day fallyth on us þe lot Mankynd for to schylde and schete Fro dedly synne and schamely schot. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. iv. 29 Then he caused lots to be cast out, to know who should be King, and the lot fell vpon the Tribe of Beniamin. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 117 The lot fell on me to be the first to breake the Ise of this enterprise. 1633 E. Ford Montelyon x. 141 The lot fell to Arnon of Persia to beginne. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxix. 115 Lots were cast five times..and all those five times the lot fell still on a little Boy of seven years of age. 1785 Let. 7 June in Brookiana (1804) 80 I believed either my brother or I should have occasion to call on Mr. Brooke; the lot fell on me, and I am glad of it. 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 438/1 Application was made..for another medical officer to attend on the Vizier; and the lot fell on me, as the flag-surgeon. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. vii. 545 The lot fell on Egmont to devise some suitable livery. 1905 Times 4 Dec. 11/2 The lot fell to J. E. Raphael, and..he executed much good work. 1988 L. Lipking Abandoned Women & Poetic Trad. ii. 49 They resolve to draw lots... The letter is torn into strips, the lot falls on Juan's tutor Pedrillo..and the feast commences. 2012 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 11 Aug. 5 ‘So the lot fell on us,’ she said of fighting nuclear arms. ‘We can do it.’ < as lemmas |
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