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rode one's luck

rode one's luck is the simple past 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 rode one's luck

What is rode one's luck the simple past of?
Rode one's luck is the simple past of ride one's luck.

Words near rode one's luck in the dictionary

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

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