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But he said not to worry, they'll both take pot luck.

Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.

Why don't you take pot luck with Sandra and me?"

Without covenants, you're taking pot luck on the community's future."

They take pot luck, as the saying goes.

But she hopes you'll stay and take pot luck, and I'm to do host.

To take pot luck, in other words.

To avoid the uncertainty of taking pot luck, consider self-catering and picnics.

Rick would shout fairly often as he shifted gears, taking pot luck on which one to choose.

I had asked for Ash, but I was willing to take pot luck.

"I'm so glad, Nick, that it was just a pack of lies, even if you will have to take pot luck with us tonight.

You'll have to take pot luck.

Bring your own ambrosia or take pot luck with the Pringsheim punch."

So last November, instead of taking pot luck or spending a lot of time visiting and tasting locally, I did my research.

We had just arrived at my house, and on the spur of the moment I invited Poirot to come in and take pot luck.

(Look, we'll make a hole through the spell big enough for something friendly to fall into, and we'll take pot luck.)

In the end, wi jist took pot luck.

"Take pot luck.

But in one respect the legacy of the past is still with us: many couples are not happy about taking pot luck when it comes to family composition.

We nod eagerly, before she delivers the killer blow: "But they're closed Mondays, so you'll have to go into town and take pot luck."

Every Greek village has its taverna, packed with locals at lunchtime, so taking pot luck in rural areas rarely disappoints.

First, don't take pot luck: this is a tourist-trap city where a recommendation by a local, or a well-researched guide, is well worth heeding.

Other factors to keep in mind include these: * When you buy at short notice, you are usually taking pot luck, with the most desirable accommodations already gone.

Will you come along and take potluck with us?"

If I was going to oblige her, she'd have to take potluck on the county."

Instead you have to take potluck as to what's on show, although the rotating exhibitions can be very good and sometimes branch out into photography.

"He's a chap who takes potluck on wildcat schemes, and usually makes out well."

Come and take potluck eat humble pie whatever.

"No, by and large we take potluck--at least the first time around.

I'd have to take potluck.

As always, he took potluck.

At the post, we'd had our own purifying plant to get the gum out of the vegetable fuels, but here we had to take potluck.

On weekends, the Kayes often take potluck in the theater district or head to Lincoln Center.

I noted that the prison administrators were on the phone frequently, and my plan was simply to tap in to likely lines briefly but persistently, taking potluck.

As to personalities ... well ... if you'll recall, we took potluck with this company to start with.

Of course, once his plight was known he would have had a score of offers, and we were flattered at his choosing to take potluck with us.

Or you could take potluck on the 5:30; 25 percent of those flights were late by an average of 9 minutes, but half were 6 minutes or more early.

At the booths, if you're willing to stand in line and take potluck as to what shows are available, tickets for that day's performances are on sale for half or, sometimes, three-quarters of their face value.

So, we must now content ourselves with taking potluck, and the pot must be pretty empty if foreign policy is hopelessly inconsistent, or downright non-existent, at times of dire crisis or when a deterrent is needed.

I would much rather have my expectation of excellence affirmed when I go to the ballpark or the opera house than to take potluck and hope for a rare glimpse of glory in a sea of mediocrity.

Only 11 percent of the population has private health insurance, and the rest take potluck with the National Health Service - a system that can be wonderful and can be atrocious, and which does not provide regular physicals.

Billy can take potluck with the other boys when he comes calling, but Gabe's taking nothing with her when she leaves my bed and board but her pa's books, and that's all Billy Peyton's worth."

As a matter fact, I had such a good time romping through Krazy Kat and Samuel Hoffenstein and S. J. Perelman as I came across them that I threw away the travel instructions and took potluck.

Brooke David hospitably asked me to stay and take potluck, and when I declined, explaining that the paper had to go to press that night, he walked down the driveway with me and, as we parted, confided that he had a favor to ask.