As eternal English optimists, and lovers of the world game, we keep our fingers crossed.
When I watch the Oscars on Sunday, I will keep my fingers crossed for Slumdog Millionaire.
You have to love virtue for its own sake, hate sin and keep your fingers crossed.
"I'll keep my fingers crossed for a century, but first I want a good night's sleep, " he said.
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Keep your fingers crossed that things don't get worse with these two countries before a new president takes office.
All I can do now is to keep my fingers crossed for the whole team for the coming races.
Banks keep their fingers crossed that as long as their systems are approved by regulators, all will be well.
For which prospect most Americans will most devoutly keep their fingers crossed.
We're just going to have to keep our fingers crossed that we don't get any strange injuries like Andy last year, and Mo.
Obviously, we can keep our fingers crossed and hope the runner has recovered from his injury, but there are problems with this thinking.
Non-Marylanders will have to keep their fingers crossed that either other states pass similar laws or that Congress acts on the federal level.
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Or to put it another way, we should all probably keep our fingers crossed that investors' optimism is well-founded, without betting our livelihoods on it.
He and his supporters will have to keep their fingers crossed.
Either way, assuming it survives at all, GM will look a lot different than it does today: leaner and--keep your fingers crossed--more capable of competing with foreign nameplates.
So keep your fingers crossed and your portfolio diversified.
With a bigger field this year, play is in danger of being even slower and organisers can only keep their fingers crossed when it comes to the vagaries of the Scottish weather in October.
We need to beat Worcestershire and all I can do is keep my fingers firmly crossed while I'm on the flight home and hope for the best.
In such a situation, you must make the safest choice: neither the Scylla of nationalization nor the Charybdis of a keep-your-fingers-crossed free market ideology.
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Such an outcome is perfectly possible, although investors will want to keep fingers, toes and everything else crossed before they commit their life savings to such a benign view.
Or, and this was left unsaid, keep sending him reminders and hope to get paid someday, fingers crossed.
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Now (fingers crossed) they will, but is it enough to keep the incestuous relationships between financial institutions and ratings agencies from continuing?
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