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take potluck
Idioms and Phrases
Come to eat whatever happens to be served; also, take one's chances. For example, You're welcome to join us for supper but you'll have to take potluck , or When the flight was canceled, passengers had to take potluck on other airlines . This idiom alludes to accepting whatever happens to be in the cooking pot. [Second half of 1700s]Example Sentences
Kissinger also had had to postpone Capitol Hill appearances to testify on such matters as the upcoming defense budget, while foreign ministers of other nations who wanted to see him had to either take potluck�as Japan's Masayoshi Ohira did last week, and missed�or else postpone visits to Washington.
It was not unusual for President Oscar Osorio himself to drive up unannounced to the embassy and take potluck luncheon with the Dukes.
Rural areas of the South or small Midwestern towns have to take potluck.
Every evening hundreds of disappointed latecomers must take potluck elsewhere.
Forced for the first time to take potluck instead of arrogantly demanding the choicest location, the Russians' exhibit stood glumly at the far end of the grounds, and attracted thousands fewer.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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