Meaning of cross your fingers in English

cross your fingers

to hope very much that something will happen:

I'm just going to cross my fingers and hope it works.

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Hoping and hopefulness

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(also keep your fingers crossed)

to hope that things will happen in the way that you want them to:

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Wanting things

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(Definition of cross your fingers from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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