单词 | to run for luck |
释义 | > as lemmasto run for luck f. U.S. to run for luck: to trust to luck, to take one's chance. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance to take one's chancec1325 to take penancec1400 to throw at allc1400 to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to set (up) one's rest1579 to give the adventure1607 to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616 to run a fortune1627 to run for luck1799 to go the vole1816 chance1863 to chance one's arm1889 to take a chance or chances1902 gamble1919 1799 J. Adams Let. 5 Jan. in M. A. Hogan & C. J. Taylor My Dearest Friend (2007) 458 I nominated him to the senate... Let him run for Luck. 1831 H. Chapin in A. Hill Pract. Error 54 I therefore concluded to take my chance, and run for luck if an emergency should arise. 1861 G. W. Curtis Trumps lxii. 360 Business is a kind of game, and..every body runs for luck. 1916 World's Work Nov. 24/2 To do nothing and run for luck is not good sense, when such vital interests are at stake. 1995 D.-M. Driscoll et al. Ethical Edge i. 9 Ignoring ethics, or giving ethics a low priority, is to ‘run for luck’. < as lemmas |
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