date with destiny

plural dates with destiny

1. idiomaticAn inevitable future event or anticipated occurrence, especially in the form of an encounter which is likely to be momentous.

   It turns out Scotland were just due a date with destiny in the USA, Canada and Mexico next summer.

   2025 November 18, Scott McDermott, “Kieran Tierney stunner sends Scotland to first World Cup in 28 years before McLean does the ridiculous”, in Daily Record

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   The American people want no rendezvous with a destiny plotted on blueprints in a Washington office. When they have a date with destiny they want to know what the lady looks like.

   1936 Aug. 10, ""I Preach"," Time

   Peter Griffin: I am not gonna let my family live on the street. Not even if it means ending up like Seamus here. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a date with destiny.

   2001, "A Fish Out of Water", season 3, episode 10 of Family Guy Hennessey: You need fifty grand, Griffin? I got a suggestion for you. Why don't you kill Daggermouth? Peter Griffin: Maybe I will, Hennessey. Seamus: You'd be buying yourself a one-way ticket to a watery grave. Daggermouth is the meanest, most ruthless creature that's ever inhabited the sea. […]

   So much has been said about Europe's long-awaited date with destiny that it was hard to sort out the predictable hyperbole from the reality.

   2002 January 1, Ian Black, “The arrival of the euro: their money, our future?”, in Guardian Unlimited, UK