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Outcome decided by chance, so you can blame the deck instead of yourself.
means Used to describe an outcome that was determined purely by chance, not by skill, effort, or merit.
from Pulled straight from card games and lotteries, where 'the draw' is literally the act of drawing a card or ticket at random. If you got a bad hand, it was nobody's fault — just the luck of the draw. The phrase moved into everyday speech sometime in the 20th century as a ready-made shrug for anything arbitrary, from birth order to which checkout line moves faster.
- origin
- from card games, literally drawing random cards
- psychology
- people credit skill for wins, luck for losses
- usage
- deployed mostly after disappointing outcomes
- truth
- randomness still follows mathematical odds, not vibes