"land in someone's lap" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: lands in someone's lap [present, singular, third-person], landing in someone's lap [participle, present], landed in someone's lap [participle, past], landed in someone's lap [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: idiomatic, informal
    Sense id: en-land_in_someone's_lap-en-verb--q5GEjtB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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