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land in someone's lap

land in someone's lap verb: to come into somebody's possession without that person making any effort to attain it, and possibly without them expecting it.

Verb

land in someone's lap (third-person singular simple present lands in someone's lap, present participle landing in someone's lap, simple past and past participle landed in someone's lap)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To come into somebody's possession without that person making any effort to attain it, and possibly without them expecting it.

Forms of land in someone's lap

third-person singular presentlands in someone's lap
present participlelanding in someone's lap
past participlelanded in someone's lap
pastlanded in someone's lap

Questions about land in someone's lap

What does land in someone's lap mean?
Land in someone's lap means to come into somebody's possession without that person making any effort to attain it, and possibly without them expecting it.
What part of speech is land in someone's lap?
Land in someone's lap is a verb.
What is the past tense of land in someone's lap?
The past tense of land in someone's lap is landed in someone's lap.

Words near land in someone's lap in the dictionary

  1. land guards
  2. land gull
  3. land gulls
  4. Land Hemisphere
  5. land ho
  6. land in someone's lap
  7. land ironclad
  8. land ironclads
  9. land legs
  10. land line
  11. land lines

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