pot luck

British  

noun

1. 1. whatever food happens to be available without special preparation

   2. ( as modifier )

      a pot-luck dinner

2. whatever is available (esp in the phrase take pot luck )

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pot luck

For the holidays the neighborhood holds an annual pot luck, she said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2020

As a family-friendly venue that might have a pot luck one weekend and a theater production the next, the nonprofit is not a place most visitors would think of as risky.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2019

And why don't the well meaning folk who conduct a weekly pot luck picnic under the highway instead assist people to get the help they could use, i.e , rehab?

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018

Photos of skipper Stephen Gerrard posing moodily with the newly-unveiled official tournament ball look incongruous against the headline describing manager England's chances as "pot luck", or the version: "England's hopes may go to pot."

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2013

Grandpa even asked Mr. McAllister to take pot luck and stay to supper.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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