ride one's luck

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ride one's luck (third-person singular simple present rides one's luck, present participle riding one's luck, simple past rode one's luck, past participle ridden one's luck)

1. (idiomatic) To avoid failure only by good fortune.
   • 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Blackburn rode their luck to beat a battling West Brom as they moved up to seventh in the Premier League table.