Idioms

Next Tuesday my office is having its Pot Luck Holiday Luncheon. I call it the "Same Old Food" party. I printed up a sign in sheet so each person could list what they will be bringing. I then filled in the dishes for half of the doctors. Spinach pie, macaroons, dried out macaroni and cheese and greasy samosas. The new people will have to figure out what they will add to the menu. One doctor usually brings wine, but at last week's holiday party another doctor drank too much, so I decided to turn the wine into soda. When I posted the list, our new intern from Italy asked if he needed to bring a pot holder. I explained the difference between pot holders and pot luck. I then realized how odd the expression pot luck was. Why don't we call it fork fortune?