be pot luck
be pot luck
To be a casual meal in which nothing has been prepared in advance. (A potluck, when spelled as one word, is a shared meal in which separate dishes are prepared and/or brought by different individuals.) Primarily heard in US. I hope you can join us for dinner on Saturday—it'll be pot luck, so just bring something that we can all share!
See also: luck, pot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
be pot luck
If you ask someone to have a meal at your house and you tell them it will be pot luck, you mean that you have not planned it or prepared any special food. Note: `Pot luck' is usually written as `potluck' in American English. `We'll just be casual and eat in the kitchen. It's just pot luck,' Moira said. `Hope you don't mind.' Note: A potluck is a meal at which different guests bring different parts of the meal.
See also: luck, pot
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- potluck
- put the cat among the pigeons
- put the cat amongst the pigeons
- put/set the cat among the pigeons
- set the cat among the pigeons
- go walkabout
- rock up
- nothing to complain about
- chitchat
- have a knee-trembler