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So I saw this line from a TV drama (again) and couldn't understand it. Here is the line:
But Michaela Stone remains a person of interest in the most perplexing investigation ever to cross any of our desks.
What's the meaning of "cross any of our desks"? I was guessing "according to our records" or something like that.
Adele is talking about a time before she became successful and admired.
have the world at your feet
British English
to be extremely successful and admired by a large number of people
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/have-the-world-at-your-feet
It's a metaphor where the world simply means lots of people. A variation of the above phrase is to have the world fall at your feet. Think of adoring people, prostrated in front of you:
Best Answer
Basically it's a variation on the idiom
"To cross one's path"
Which means "to encounter". The author substituted the word "desks" for "path" to emphasise the idea that the encounter happened at work.