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Lap of the gods   /læp əv ðə gɑdz/   Listen
Lap of the gods

noun
1.
Beyond human control or responsibility.





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"Lap of the gods" Quotes from Famous Books



... got a soul of her own now and means to make the most of it. It will lead me upward somewhere. But whether I am to be king of New Babylon or Prime Minister of New Zealand or lawgiver to a Polynesian tribe is a secret as yet hidden in the lap of the gods, whence Carlotta doubtless will snatch it in ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke


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