court disaster
Example Sentences
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Superstitious sippers must not break their teapot, pour tea back into the teapot, drink the kettle dry or drink out of the spout, lest they court disaster.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023
German diplomats warn that redrawing boundaries in a region still reeling from war would court disaster.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2019
To tell the truth would be to court disaster: a probable break-up, plus the risk of a permanent rift between father and daughter and father and wife.
From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2019
Their message, like Jones’s, is that Alabamians court disaster if they do not vote.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2017
Personally, I don't believe in talking down to any child; but to employ this method with Phillida is to court disaster.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 by Various
