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单词 to run for luck
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to run for luck
f. U.S. to run for luck: to trust to luck, to take one's chance.
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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’.
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