The phrase
"tempting fate" means taking a risky action that could lead to bad consequences or testing luck by doing something dangerous or reckless.
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Sentences with «tempting fate»
- And so it's important that I keep at least some cards to my chest — partly out of a fear I'm tempting fate by getting too overtly excited about things. (30datesblog.com)
- Rather than tempting fate with one large cake, I baked 3 small long cakes, in 5 cm x 20 cm tins. (suma.coop)
- These fools just tempted fate and thought they'd get away with what is, and remains, drug - dealing. (slaw.ca)
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