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tempt fate
Idioms and Phrases
Also, tempt the fates . Take a severe risk, as in It's tempting fate to start up that mountain so late in the day , or Patrice thought driving that old car was tempting the fates; it was sure to break down . This expression uses tempt in the sense of “test in a way that involves risk or danger.” Earlier idioms with a similar meaning were tempt God , dating from the 1300s, and tempt fortune , first recorded in 1603, with fate appearing about 1700.Example Sentences
Arobin pulled off his coat, and expressed himself ready and willing to tempt fate in her place.
I think it's perfect; but I'd better not tempt Fate with any more.
The oftener we looked the more eager we became to tempt fate.
It was to tempt fate to venture out of the shelter the rock was giving.
And yet Maguennoc tried to tempt fate and to get past what men are allowed to know.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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