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Jimmy Hung
2021-11-16 05:11
Press (one's) luck phrase
To put the success or fortune one has acquired in a risky situation, in which it could be lost by presumptuously looking for more.
When they dared me to play cards with them, I knew they were just trying to make me press my luck.
If you keep pressing your luck, I'm afraid you will soon lose out on all the money that you have obtained.
To make an attempt to get more benefits or advantages when one has already been given something.
She's agreed to let you go out for three hours, so you had better not press your luck to ask for two more hours.
I pressed my luck with the hope that John would do another exercise for me.
The verb "press" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase appeared around the early-1900s.
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