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Keep your fingers crossed

To be hopeful that something will happen or to wish best of luck to someone.

Origin
Usage of this phrase is probably associated with the gesture used in the early centuries of the Catholic Church. The Christians used the gesture to invoke the power of Christ’s Cross for protection.

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