| Subject | English | Russian |
| gen. | come and take pot luck with us | пообедайте с нами |
| gen. | come and take pot luck with us | чем богаты, тем и рады, пообедайте с нами |
| gen. | come and take pot luck with us | чем богаты, тем и рады |
| idiom. | have to take pot luck | остаётся надеяться (They had no menus so if you wanted anything you had to take pot luck you weren't going to be ripped off. 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | have to take pot luck | не приходится выбирать (She was from a good family fallen upon hard times, and she'd had to take pot luck in the way of a husband. 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | выбирать наудачу (to select blindly from the available options in the hopes of achieving a fortunate or beneficial end result) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | выбирать наугад (We didn't know the dishes and had to take pot luck. • I've never heard of any of these restaurants. We'll have to take pot luck.) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | положиться на случай (Booking far in advance, we had to take pot luck on the weather but ended up with a perfect day.) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | выбрать наугад ('Did somebody recommend the hotel to you?' 'No, we just took pot luck. It was the first hotel in the brochure.') |
| idiom. | take pot luck | положиться на удачу (I couldn't get any information from the telephone directory, so I had to take pot luck. • The only downside was we couldn't book so had to take pot luck in wether we could get a seat or not. 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | попытать счастья (только в контексте: They had to take "pot luck" for supper in the cafeteria as food supplies were limited. / 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | выбирать из того, что есть (During peak times you may need to make a booking to get into your chosen restaurant, although some places don't take reservations so you'll have to take pot luck. 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | выбрать наугад |
| idiom. | take pot luck | рискнуть (We had to take pot luck parking in somebody else's space, which could have ended up with our car being towed. 4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | довольствоваться тем, что есть (4uzhoj) |
| gen. | take pot luck | наудачу |
| idiom. | take pot luck | есть, что дают (4uzhoj) |
| idiom. | take pot luck | действовать наудачу (VLZ_58) |
| gen. | take pot luck | чем Бог послал пообедать |
| Makarov. | take pot luck with a friend | поесть с приятелем то, что есть под рукой |
