fall to someone's lot
verbDefinitions
To 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.
- 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.
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