Usually means: Hoping for good luck silently.
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  1. cross one's fingers: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cross one's fingers: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cross one's fingers, cross one's fingers: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cross one's fingers: Wiktionary
  5. cross one's fingers: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (cross one's fingers)

verb:  To put the middle finger across the index finger, especially:
verb:  when wishing for luck, or
verb:  when telling a lie (and attempting to escape the moral and other consequence of that lie).


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