- 看过 tempt fate 的人也看了 :
- ask for it
- bell the cat
- push one's luck
- try one's hand
tempt fate 的定义
- Also, tempt the fates. Take a severe risk, as in It's tempting fate to start up that mountain so late in the day, or Patrice thought driving that old car was tempting the fates; it was sure to break down. This expression uses tempt in the sense of “test in a way that involves risk or danger.” Earlier idioms with a similar meaning were tempt God, dating from the 1300s, and tempt fortune, first recorded in 1603, with fate appearing about 1700.
tempt fate 近义词
ask for trouble
更多tempt fate例句
- Sybil is dead, as is Matthew; Gregson is missing with dark hints about his fate.
- If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.
- The fate of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the 162 souls on board is a tragedy, but it will not remain a mystery for much longer.
- Yet, much like the fate that fell the first season, ratings just plain weren't good.
- So how concerned should people be about the fate of the VSV vaccine?
- It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.
- Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.
- I cannot believe that a good God would create or tolerate a Devil, nor that he would allow the Devil to tempt man.
- She was a grown young woman when she was overtaken by what she supposed to be the climax of her fate.
- Noble ambition—worthy of a less ignoble cause—a better fate!