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press

/push (one's) luck

To risk one's good fortune, often by acting overconfidently.

See:

• a full-court press
• any press is good press
• be hard pressed
• be hard-pressed
• be hot off the press
• dead-tree press
• full-court press
• go to press
• go to press with
• hard pressed
• hard put
• hit the panic button
• hot off the press
• in press
• press
• press (one's) luck
• press (someone's) buttons
• press against
• press charges
• press down on
• press flesh
• press for
• press forward
• press into
• press into service
• press on
• press onto
• press out of
• press the flesh
• press the panic button
• press the right button
• press together
• pressed for money
• pressed for time
• push luck
• push on
• push one's luck
• push someone's buttons
• push the panic button
• push to the wall
• squeeze out of
• stop press
• stop the music
• Stop the presses! Hold everything!
• yellow press