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fucked by the fickle finger of fate	Victimized by bad luck.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
tempt fate	To take an extreme risk	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
twist of fate	An unfortunate turn of events.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
harpoon is good for the whale, painful for humans.	The phrase usually refers to how people treat each other. Borrowed from native tribes, it translates to how people feel when they meet similar fate as that of their nemesis.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
there but for the grace of god go i	A recognition that others' misfortune could be one's own, if it weren't for the blessing/kindness/luck bestowed by fate or the Divine.Man's fate is in God's hands.More generally, our fate is not entirely in our own hands.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
couldn't happen to a nicer	Sarcastically asserts that those in question thoroughly deserve their fate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
devil take the hindmost	An imprecation that everyone should look after their own interests, leaving those who cannot cope to whatever fate befalls them.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
drag down	to cause to suffer the same fate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
every bullet has its billet	Fate determines who shall be killed.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fortunae cedere	to acquiesce in one's fate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fortunae obiectum esse	to be abandoned to fate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fortunae telis propositum esse	to be exposed to the assaults of fate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get out	To come out of a situation ; to escape a fate	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go the way of	To end up the same way as. To receive the same fate as.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
handwriting on the wall	Alternative form of writing on the wall. A divine prediction or sentence to fate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
kick against the pricks	to struggle against one's fate. [from 14th c.]	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
save the furniture	To salvage something positive from a calamitous situation, especially one involving the reputation or fate of a political party.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
straight out of the chute	Something done immediately, or "from the beginning". Taken from rodeo routine: the bucking bronco, or bull, or the calf for the calf-roping contest is kept in a narrow pen, a chute, until it is released and dashes out to its fate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
That's the Way the Ball Bounces	That’s what life really is or that’s what the life is all about; fate; you may not be able to change certain things in your life	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
write your own script	Encouragement to decide one’s own fate	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)