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tempt
(redirected from tempting fate)

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Obviously drinking a lot of liquids right before bedtime--especially diuretics like tea or coffee--is tempting fate.
``This is truly not the time to be tempting fate by driving around the barricades saying, I think I can make it.
Putting a library in a glass box facing south is of course tempting fate to cook the books, but the stacks are kept to the Inner area, under the Intermediate floor, and so provided with a good degree of protection.
 
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