Sentence examples for pushing your luck from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Moral: There's such a thing as pushing your luck too far.

The Morgans and Salomons simply try to avoid pushing your luck.

"So am I fired?" "Don't push your luck.

("Don't push your luck," his publisher apparently told him).

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".