fall to (one's) lot

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fall to (one's) lot

To become one's duty or job. I'm worried that that big project will fall to my lot if Lydia resigns.
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fall to someone's lot

become someone's task or responsibility.
See also: fall, lot, to
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The time is now past when accidents could befall me; and what COULD now fall to my lot which would not already be mine own!
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"It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot instead of yours."
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Four days later, on the date that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Churchill replied: "Much as I should like to meet the deputation of the Welsh Parliamentary Party, I regret that, owing to the many tasks which fall to my lot at this time, it is impossible for me to arrange a date." The previously unpublished letters will go under the hammer at a Mullocks Auction at Ludlow Racecourse in Shropshire on April 23 and they are expected to fetch around pounds 1,200.
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