Idiom: Keep your fingers crossed (meaning, examples, origin, pronunciation)

"Keep your fingers crossed" means "to wish for good luck; to hope for a good outcome".

Example 1: Keep your fingers crossed that I get the job.

Example 2: I hope you win the race. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Example 3: Let's keep our fingers crossed for Tom. He has his driving test today.

Origin: Dates back to before Christianity. There were people who believed in "sacred geometry" and that good spirits resided at the intersections of crosses. People would make wishes by crossing their index finger with another person's index finger, thinking that the good spirits would make their wish come true.

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