English

Verb

fall to one's lot ‎(third-person singular simple present falls to one's lot, present participle falling to one's lot, simple past and past participle fell to one's lot)

1. (intransitive, dated) To be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, Hunted Down

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

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 50

     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.