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Fate

= something destined or suitable, is not the Latin fatum, but the French fait = share, one’s own, that which suits one; as “voila mon fait,” that is the man for me.

“Pour moi, ma sieur, a dit la cadette, jʹaime le solide, je veux un homme riche, et le gros don Blanco sera mon fait.”—Le Sage: Diable Boiteux.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fast and Loose (To play)
Fasti
Fasting
Fastrade
Fat
Fat Men
Fat as a Porpoise
Fata
Fata Morgana
Fatal Gifts
Fate
Fates
Father
Father Mathew
Father Neptune
Father Norbert
Father Paul
Father Prout
Father Thames
Father Thoughtful
Father of Waters