Fickle finger of Atropos, Clotho, or Lachesis

noun

1. The will or principle or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do destiny

   "… fate sometimes deals a straight flush … he had no idea that he would become the right man in the right place at the right time …"

2. An inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end

   "Her fate was to remain in exile."

3. Disaster
4. Final outcome

   "Congress decided the bill's fate by a single vote."

5. The expected result of normal development

   "prospective fate of embryonic cells"

6. The circumstances that befall someone or something

   "did not know the fate of her former classmates"

7. The three goddesses, Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis, who determine the course of human life in classical mythology

verb

1. Destine

noun phrase

1. Something worse than dying

   "She regarded poverty as a fate worse than death."

idiom

1. To take a risk hoping to be lucky

   "They tried to cheat fate."

idiom

1. To die

   "Like his father, he met his fate on the battlefield."

idiom

1. To make the future that someone will have certain

   "Their decision sealed her fate. Once they made their decision, her fate was sealed."

idiom

1. To do something that is very risky or dangerous

   "Race car drivers tempt fate every time they race."