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God knows! (Alex_Odeychuk); God only knows (Andrey Truhachev); it is in the lap of the Gods (Today the usual English expression, "in the lap of the Gods," refers to a situation that one can't control–something controlled by fate, destiny, providence. The phrase "in the lap" is used here to mean in the care, keeping, or control (a figurative sense of "lap" as a place where a child is held).) |
