tempt fate

“We didn’t want to tempt fate,” Dickson said, laughing as he recalled the March 7 incident.

If so, you’ll relate with the denizens of the fictional, funky Seattle record store The Cuckoo’s Nest, who tempt fate one drunken night by simultaneously playing four, old 12-inch singles, conjuring the fabled “Schrader’s Chord.”

He’s going to tempt fate and make the unconventional decisions, and we should be used to that.

"And because the U.S. has yet to display the growth infirmities of the rest of the world, the U.S. stands apart, and the Fed has signalled that it can tempt fate."

"And because the U.S. has yet to display the growth infirmities of the rest of the world, the U.S. stands apart, and the Fed has signalled that it can tempt fate."