Idiom
have one's number on it
Meaning
To be destined for someone.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That gold medal clearly had his number on it.”
“When she saw the perfect house on the market, she felt it had her number on it.”
“The veteran detective stared at the unsolved file, convinced that the case had his number on it from the very beginning.”
Examples
simple
“That gold medal clearly had his number on it.”
contextual
“When she saw the perfect house on the market, she felt it had her number on it.”
complex
“The veteran detective stared at the unsolved file, convinced that the case had his number on it from the very beginning.”
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