"press one's luck" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "presses one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressing one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "press one's luck (third-person singular simple present presses one's luck, present participle pressing one's luck, simple past and past participle pressed one's luck)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "push one's luck"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, David Foster Wallace, “Octet”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown and Company",
          "text": "...it's possible that the weird psychospiritual probing you mean it to connote by medical analogy won't come across at all to anybody, which is probably marginally OK, because individual words the reader can sort of skip over and not get too bothered about, but there's no sense in pressing your luck and hammering on palpate over and over again).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of push one's luck"
      ],
      "id": "en-press_one's_luck-en-verb-mz63XxpO",
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        [
          "push one's luck",
          "push one's luck#English"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "press one's luck"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "presses one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressing one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed one's luck",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "press one's luck (third-person singular simple present presses one's luck, present participle pressing one's luck, simple past and past participle pressed one's luck)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "push one's luck"
        }
      ],
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, David Foster Wallace, “Octet”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown and Company",
          "text": "...it's possible that the weird psychospiritual probing you mean it to connote by medical analogy won't come across at all to anybody, which is probably marginally OK, because individual words the reader can sort of skip over and not get too bothered about, but there's no sense in pressing your luck and hammering on palpate over and over again).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of push one's luck"
      ],
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        [
          "push one's luck",
          "push one's luck#English"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "press one's luck"
}