fall to someone's lot

present singular third person falls to someone's lot · participle present falling to someone's lot · past fell to someone's lot · participle past fallen to someone's lot

1. datedintransitiveTo be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.

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

   1859, Charles Dickens, Hunted Down

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   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.

   1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 50”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: fall to someone's share