Definition
It's only fitting (that he lay the first brick): It's appropriate, it's apt, it's proper, it's suitable (that he lay the first brick)
Note that the construction "it's only fitting that" is followed by a verb in the subjunctive present tense!
Examples: It's only fitting that: he go, she fly, it be, etc.
Examples: It's only fitting that: he go, she fly, it be, etc.
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