You know it's a big step up for me!
I really want this job!
Fingers crossed!
I'm having a test tomorrow, so you know keep your fingers crossed!
Keep your fingers crossed.
Why do I need to cross my fingers?
Any ideas?
Hello my dear friends and welcome to English Mania!
My name is Antonia Romaker and today we'll get acquainted with another popular English
idiom - to keep your fingers crossed.
So let's jump in!
To keep your fingers crossed means to hope strongly that something is going to happen,
so you hope, or to hope for good luck.
Why do we need to cross our fingers for that?
Well, we'll get to that a little later.
She has her exam this morning, so keep your fingers crossed.
So hope for good luck that she'll get easy questions and will perform with flying colors,
will do her best.
So keep your fingers crossed, hope for good luck.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will soon turn up!
I've lost my dog, you know.
So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will soon turn up.
Our friend is having an operation tomorrow so let's just keep our fingers crossed that
everything goes smoothly.
Let's hope for good luck, let's hope that something good will happen, so everything
will be okay.
Let's just keep our fingers crossed.
Just keep your fingers crossed, okay?
Do you want a boy or a girl?
You can guess the context, it has something to do with a baby!
So just keep your fingers crossed, everything will be okay.
So once again, to keep your fingers crossed, or you can simply say 'fingers crossed', means
to wish for good luck, to wish that everything goes perfectly.
The phrase is actually closely connected with religion because this sign is wishing for
God to help.
So it's an attempt to implore God for protection.
The next example is from the tv show Game of Thrones, actually, it was used in the episode
where they tell how some episodes were made.
You do the best you can, get everything as ready as you can and then you cross your fingers.
So you do the best and you cross your fingers that luck is on your side.
You do the best you can, you get everything as ready as you can and then you cross your
fingers.
The next example is from the tv show Devious Maids.
She's just not at the top of the donor list, so keep your fingers crossed.
So she needs some organ but she's not at the top of the donor list, so she might not get
it right away or very soon.
So keep your fingers crossed that she gets the organ in time.
So you can say to keep your fingers crossed, you can simply say fingers crossed or you
can say to cross your fingers.
And then you cross your fingers.
I have an opportunity to study in Germany.
I've passed all the exams and now I just have to wait.
So fingers crossed!
Okay, that's it about this amazing English idiom.
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