push your luck

Meaning

1. to take a risk because you have successfully avoided problems in the past

   You didn't get caught last time, but don't push your luck!

In the movies · 3

• Don't push your luck, Sinbad.Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas2003
• You're pushing your luck. Don't worry.Scarface1983
• - Roark. - You really are pushing your luck, Padre, feeding me garbage like that.Sin City2005

From the same entry

• be pushing 40, 50
• be pushing up daisies
• push the boat out
• push the envelope
• push to the back of your mind
• push all the buttons
• press the panic button
• push about
• push ahead
• push aside
• push back
• push back