that's your lot - Glite Dictionary

Examples

We've finished the cake, so that's your lot for dessert tonight.
Well, that's your lot for today!
After the last episode airs, that's your lot for the season.
After the meeting, I told him, that's your lot.
Sorry, no more refills—that's your lot.
After the last episode airs, that's your lot for the season.
We've finished the cake, so that's your lot for dessert tonight.

Synonyms

that's all she wrote

vsthat's your lot

Informal

1 9.2

The end when nothing more can be said or done

emphasizes that nothing more is available or possible to receive

the cupboard is bare

vsthat's your lot

Informal

1 6.9

There is no food left at home

refers more generally to nothing more being available or possible

Antonyms

additional

858 1.0

More than what is already there or was mentioned

Surface Forms

that's your lot main

Morphology

that's + your + lot

The phrase composes transparently as 'that is + your + lot' where 'lot' means one's portion or fate, so the basic sense 'that's all you get' can be inferred if a learner knows this sense of 'lot'. However, the 'lot' = 'portion/fate' meaning is less frequent and the phrase is somewhat conventionalized, so many B1 learners who only know more common senses of 'lot' may not predict the idiomatic use without prior exposure.

Etymology

That's your lot uses lot in the old sense of a share or portion. Imagine people dividing food and someone getting their lot — that's all they are given, so the phrase now means 'that is all you will get'.