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pot luck

noun

    1. whatever food happens to be available without special preparation

    2. ( as modifier )

      a pot-luck dinner

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"I don't know how my guests and the readers are coming up with some of these results - it feels like it is just pot luck," Sutton said.

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"It's not a pot luck. It's amazing."

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Ms Columbo said: "I'd rather risk a vaccine we know a fair amount about than take pot luck with a virus about which we know very little."

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They track down your number using "pot luck", he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

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If you get it, it's pot luck and you could be unlucky.

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