God willing vs fingers crossed

God willing

intj

  • Used to indicate acceptance of God's will when expressing an intention or hope. 

  • Barring unforeseen circumstances. 

fingers crossed

phrase

  • - used to express that one is expectant and hoping. 

adv

  • hopefully 

How often have the words God willing and fingers crossed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )