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tempt fate/providence
idiom
If you tempt fate or providence by doing something, you take a silly risk by doing it and depend too much on your good luck: 玩命;冒不必要的危险
You're tempting fate by riding your bike without wearing a helmet.你不戴头盔骑自行车简直是在玩命。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Taking risks
adventurer
all in
be skating on thin iceidiom
bet the farm/ranchidiom
broke
compromise
expose
gamble
have/put your head on the blockidiom
hazard
high wire
high-stakes
imperil
put your neck on the lineidiom
put/lay something on the lineidiom
re-expose
risk
run the risk of doing somethingidiom
sail
skate
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