the gods smile on someone

Meaning: (idiomatic)Someoneexperiencesgood fortune,success,orwell-being.2010June 10,Lawrence Donegan, “Graeme McDowell stays strong to take US Open title”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:Yet if[Dustin]Johnson's day was misery complete, then[Graeme]McDowell's was the very essence of joy. "I just can't explain how I feel right now. I said before the round started that ifthegolfinggods smile onme I might win this trophy. And they did," he said afterwards.2019October 23, Hayley Quinn, Paisley Gilmour, “An essential guide to 'zombieing' - the dating trend that's worse than ghosting”, inCosmopolitan‎[2]:"A month later, he reappeared. ‘Hey! How are you? Sorry about the lack of contact. That virus was nasty. Fancy that second date?’ HOORAHTHEDATINGGODS HAVE SMILED UPON ME, I thought.[…]"2020February 4, Matt Flegenheimer, Sydney Ember, “Waiting Years for This Night, Then Hours for an Iowa Winner”, inThe New York Times‎[3]:Every four years since the 1970s,thepoliticalgods have smiled uponIowa, endowing its residents with uncommon power to set the course of national politics as the first nominating contest.2020August 22,Robert McCrum, “For ever and a day: why we turn to Shakespeare at times of crisis”, inThe Observer‎[4]:As an association, we demonstrate near-Olympic sang-froid. As I write,the gods are smiling upon us, but in the past decade – not to mince words – two of our number have got divorced, one of us checked into rehab, and all of us have had distressful troubles with teenage kids.

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