to press your luck - idiom meaning?

Question

What is the meaning of "to press your luck" idiom?

Answer 1

 

Idiom Conjugations:

 

Answer 2

Gerund Form of the Idiom:

Pressing your luck can often result in losing what you have gained.
 

Answer 3

Idiom Usage:

In the imperative:  (usually negative)

"Don't press your luck!"

 

Answer 4

Idiom Scenario 2:

Ned has enjoyed hosting the Friday night poker game for he and his friends for a couple of years now.  One day Ned decides that it would be even more fun to have poker night on Friday and Saturday night.  Ned approaches Grace to ask if it is OK if he hosts a poker game on Saturday night as well.  Grace replies ...

"I have never liked Friday night poker.  The house always smells of stale smoke and beer and there is always a lot of cleaning to do afterwards.  I wouldn't press my luck if I were you."

If Ned asks Grace again about another poker night, Grace may very well deny Ned the Friday night poker game.

Answer 5

Idiom Scenario 1:

Johnny is busy bothering his mother to buy him a new video game.  After a couple of hours of asking, Johnny's mother relents and tells Johnny that she will buy him a new video game.  Johnny continues to bother his mother about when she will buy the game.  Johnny wants his mother to go to the store right now but Johnny's mother is busy with housework and other chores and will not go to the store until later that day.  Johnny asks his mother one more time if she will go to the store right now.  Johnny's mother replies ...

"If you continue to press your luck, young man, then I won't buy you any game at all."

Johnny understands this and stops bothering his mother.

Answer 6

Idiom Definition:

"to press your luck"

to attempt to gain more from a good situation usually at the risk of losing what you have gained
 

Synonyms:
chance, danger, exposure, fortune, gamble, hazard, jeopardy, liability, luck, opportunity, peril, plunge, prospect, speculation, uncertainty, venture, wager
 
 
Literally pressing your luck. - - - - ->