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Tommy Tran
2021-02-03 01:02
Push your luckpush it/things informal verb phrase
The verb "push" can be replaced by "press". The phrase is usually used in its negative form, as in don't push your luck.
To do something risky and may cause trouble
Despite being the favorite student of the class, I wouldn't push my luck to upset the teacher when she's angry.
Don't push it or you'll get punished!
I think you’re pushing your luck if I ask him for help.
If you take a flyer (on something), you take a chance, risk, or gamble on it.
This proverb advise you already have your own valuable thing, so you don't need to take the risk of getting something better, which may cause you to lose everything.
1. To grab or make the most of the opportunities when they happens or exists
2. When you take your chances, you take a risk because you may fail.
To do something without considering risks, threats, or consequences
To do something harmful or dangerous to one's health and life
The verb "push" should be conjugated according to its tense.
The origin of this expression is unclear but it's believed to come from a dice game known as "Klahc" or "Lokh." Players who rolled a good roll (two ox-heads and one sword showing among the four dice) had the option to hit the remaining dice with a curved stick. If it also came up a sword, they will win double, but if not, their turn ended immediately. Players who took this gamble were said to be "Nolkhahn ti Klahcnu," which was roughly translated as "pushing at a game of Klahc." The late 19th-century British explorers who compiled the first systematic Uyghur lexicons decided that "Klahc" came from the same Indo-European word-root as "luck," and called the game itself "luck." Although that is incorrect, the phrase has entered the English vocabulary since then.
Do you see anything wrong?
1. Doing something extremely well
2. Behaving in an extreme or remarkable manner
1. Holly was in rare form during her speech, so she got the first prize in the competition last night.
2. Corrine: I'm going to buy Christmas presents for everybody. Do you want to go with me?
Laura: Oh...My kids are in rare form today, so I cannot go with you. Sorry!
