WINNING THE LOTTERY figuratively is getting something that has a very low chance of getting it. The jackpot in a lottery has a chance from 1 in 50. 000 and up to 1 in millions to earn. A real example of figurative use : My daughter Catherine, Chilean and architect, 29 years old, wanted to get married and one day he tells me : Dad, I go to Europe : Chileans are all fools (only interested in football, parties, drink and put it, I interpret it). Left. In Spain he remodeled feudal castles making them paradors. The crisis came and went to Berlin where she was hired to modernize palaces of the Tsarist nobility for the new Russian millionaires (who hire German companies for the, seriousness and because those of the formerRDA speak Russian). She is invited to a marriage on the Greek islands and introduced to her prince charming who, on the bus back to the airport offers her marriage. He is a doctor of wave physics, head of General Electric's laboratory in Salzburg, Austria, who designs MRI machines and ultrasounds for pregnant women. He speaks 5 languages, is very nice and looks like a movie actor. Back and forth between Berlin and Vienna until he moves to Austria, marries, has a son and stops working. As if it were not enough has wonderful in-laws and she loves cooking so she has free pastry and babysitter all week. As in fairy tales, live happily ever after. That's winning the lottery.
