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Verb
ride one's luck
- (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.