"push your luck" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used when someone takes a risk expecting more favorable results than what is likely to happen. For example: "He kept pushing his luck at the casino, but eventually he ran out of money."
"So am I fired?" "Don't push your luck.
This research focused on development and evaluation of "Don't Push Your Luck!", an educational board game designed to inspire family discussion about chronic conditions, and help affected children learn about self-care choices and consequences.
You can push your luck further with a winner than you can, or should, with a loser.
You'd have to push your luck to achieve such an ignominious dismissal, but Ljungskile goalkeeper Michal Slawuta managed it in an away game at Trelleborg that back in April 2008.
"There have been two times when I've seen you get at least a little bit emotional on the air," Mr. Koppel said, and Mr. Letterman smiled and told him calmly, "Don't push your luck, Ted".
When, early in 2013, I asked Oliver to write about ash trees for our new monograph series, I did not expect him to say yes – as a small publisher you learn to be plucky, push your luck, turn rough-skinned through rejection.
Oakley thought that was excessive, pushing your luck.
Exhibiting the carrier bag that Michael Craig-Martin designed for Sainsbury's and listing him on the bill is probably pushing your luck too far.
The airlessness of the single setting – a controlled environment allowing teens to approach mortality from safe distance – is only dispelled late on, with some daffily fateful business atop a frozen lake: in this case, love means pushing your luck.
In the cabaret universe of the 1940's, 50's and 60's, when Ms. Wallis wrote and performed the 20 or so songs that make up this show, it was probably pushing your luck with the vice squad to sing a line like "I always think of my blushing groom/ Whenever I see the pansies bloom" in "Queer Things Are Happening".
Three for three is pushing your luck.
