knock on wood
US UK touch wood informalsaid in order to avoid bad luck, either when you mention good luck that you have had in the past or when you mention hopes you have for the future:
The deal will be agreed on Wednesday, knock on wood.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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