couldn't happen to a nicer »
Sarcastically asserts that those in question thoroughly deserve their fate.
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go the way of »
To end up the same way as. To receive the same fate as.
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handwriting on the wall »
Alternative form of writing on the wall. A divine prediction or sentence to fate.
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ill fated »
doomed
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in the cards »
Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.
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object lesson »
Anything used an example or lesson which serves to warn others as to the outcomes that result from a particular action or behavior, as exemplified by the fates of those who followed that course.
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straight out of the chute »
Something done immediately, or "from the beginning". Taken from rodeo routine: the bucking bronco, or bull, or the calf for the calf-roping contest is kept in a narrow pen, a chute, until it is released and dashes out to its fate.
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there but for the grace of God go I »
A recognition that others' misfortune could be one's own, if it weren't for the blessing/kindness/luck bestowed by fate or the Divine.Man's fate is in God's hands.More generally, our fate is not entirely in our own hands.
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twist of fate »
An unfortunate turn of events.
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