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ride one's luck

ride one's luck verb: to avoid failure only by good fortune.

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

Forms of ride one's luck

third-person singular presentrides one's luck
present participleriding one's luck
pastrode one's luck
past participleridden one's luck

Questions about ride one's luck

What does ride one's luck mean?
Ride one's luck means to avoid failure only by good fortune.
What part of speech is ride one's luck?
Ride one's luck is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride one's luck?
The past tense of ride one's luck is rode one's luck.

Words near ride one's luck in the dictionary

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

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