Word.ws English Dictionary

ridden one's luck

ridden one's luck is the past participle of ride one's luck.

Meaning of ride one's luck

Verb

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.
    • Blackburn rode their luck to beat a battling West Brom as they moved up to seventh in the Premier League table.2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC

Questions about ridden one's luck

What is ridden one's luck the past participle of?
Ridden one's luck is the past participle of ride one's luck.

Words near ridden one's luck in the dictionary

  1. ridden off into the sunset
  2. ridden on
  3. ridden on a rail
  4. ridden on the back of
  5. ridden one's bumper
  6. ridden one's luck
  7. ridden or died
  8. ridden out
  9. ridden out the storm
  10. ridden over
  11. ridden pillion

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ridden one's luck (page history and authors); ride one's luck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ridden one's luck.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ridden_one%27s_luck. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.