"ride one's luck" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-ride one's luck.ogg Forms: rides one's luck [present, singular, third-person], riding one's luck [participle, present], rode one's luck [past], ridden one's luck [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|ride<,,rode,ridden> one's luck}} ride one's luck (third-person singular simple present rides one's luck, present participle riding one's luck, simple past rode one's luck, past participle ridden one's luck)
  1. (idiomatic) To avoid failure only by good fortune. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-ride_one's_luck-en-verb-bDq5C0Fh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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