touch wood

Meaning

1. used when you have just mentioned some way in which you have been lucky in the past, to avoid bringing bad luck

   I've been driving for over 20 years and never had an accident — touch wood!

In the movies · 1

• I've got my health, touch wood, I've got my independence.Another Year2010

Learn it in full scenes

• Another Year2010
  • A Woman Asks for Sleeping Pills
  • Janet Rates Her Happiness
  • Mary Confides in Gerri Over Drinks

From the same entry

• be touched with
• not touch with a bargepole
• touch base
• touch bottom
• strike a chord
• touch your forelock
• not harm a hair of head
• hit a nerve
• catch on the raw
• touch down
• touch for
• touch off