0 a game in which you pay to pick a prize out of a container with many different prizes in it, without being able to see what you are picking --
By selecting seven numbers between 1 and 27, players could win anything from a free lucky dip to 30,000.
The further education provisions remind me of the lucky dip, where one rummaged around in the sawdust and ended up with the suspicion that very little had been put in.
We sometimes think of council tenants as being people who, as a result of some kind of lucky dip, get all the benefits of life at a very small rent.
But it panders to one of the weaknesses in our society today; the desire for a lucky dip and for gains which are unrelated to effort or work.
Indeed, it seems to he very much a question of engaging in a "lucky dip" to see what you are going to get out of it.
On the original proposal it was simply a lucky dip.
Increasingly, marriage would become a form of lottery; a lucky dip.
Sometimes it is a lucky dip; but it came out to be a good dip this time—not only lucky but good.
