Advanced Vocabulary for English Language Learners
Sunday, March 27, 2016
To press/push one's luck
To press/push one's luck
- to try too hard to get a particular result and risk losing what you have achieved.
Example - "She's agreed to help on Saturday, but I think I'd be pushing my luck if I asked her to be here the whole weekend"
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