tempt fate

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tempt fate 的定义

  1. 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

v. 动词 verb

ask for trouble

更多tempt fate例句

  1. Sybil is dead, as is Matthew; Gregson is missing with dark hints about his fate.
  2. If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.
  3. 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.
  4. Yet, much like the fate that fell the first season, ratings just plain weren't good.
  5. So how concerned should people be about the fate of the VSV vaccine?
  6. It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.
  7. Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.
  8. I cannot believe that a good God would create or tolerate a Devil, nor that he would allow the Devil to tempt man.
  9. She was a grown young woman when she was overtaken by what she supposed to be the climax of her fate.
  10. Noble ambition—worthy of a less ignoble cause—a better fate!