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push one's luck

To take an excessive risk or to attempt some task unlikely to succeed, especially after having already been unexpectedly lucky.
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Submitted on September 01, 2009

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push the boat outpush against an open doorpush aroundpush the envelopepush throughpush forwardpush pastpull the other one, it's got brass bell…push onput on one's dancing shoespush upput all one's eggs in one basketpunch above one's weightpush off

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