pot luck

British

noun

1. whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
2. ( as modifier )
  
  a pot-luck dinner
whatever is available (esp in the phrase take pot luck )

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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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