press

Related to press: Word press

press (one's) luck

1. To risk losing the success or fortune one has garnered thus far by brashly or overconfidently seeking more. I've had some good winnings at blackjack, but I don't think I should press my luck any further.
2. To try to gain some additional benefit or advantage after one has already been granted or awarded something. Usually used in negative constructions as an imperative. If Mom is letting you stay out till midnight on Friday, don't press your luck and ask for a later curfew on Saturday, too. A: "Thank you for the raise. I was wondering if you might also consider expanding my benefits, too." B: "Don't press your luck."
See also: luck, press
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

press

/push (one's) luck
To risk one's good fortune, often by acting overconfidently.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See:
  • a bad press
  • a full-court press
  • a good press
  • any press is good press
  • bad press
  • be hard-pressed
  • be hot off the press
  • be pressed for money
  • be pressed for space
  • be pressed for time
  • be pressed/pushed for money, space, time, etc.
  • be pushed for money
  • be pushed for space
  • be pushed for time
  • dead-tree press
  • full-court press
  • full-court press, a
  • get (a) bad press
  • get (a) good press
  • get/have a good, bad, etc. press
  • go to press
  • go to press with
  • go to press with (something)
  • good press
  • hard pressed
  • hard put
  • hard-pressed
  • hard-pressed to (do something)
  • have (a) bad press
  • have (a) good press
  • hit the panic button
  • hot off the press
  • hot off the press(es)
  • in press
  • press
  • press (all) the right buttons
  • press (one) to the wall
  • press (one's) luck
  • press (someone or something) into service
  • press (someone's) buttons
  • press (something) (up)on (one)
  • press (something) into (something)
  • press (something) onto (something else)
  • press (something) out of (something else)
  • press (the) flesh
  • press against
  • press against (someone or something)
  • press ahead
  • press charges
  • press down on
  • press down on (someone or something)
  • press flesh
  • press for
  • press forward
  • press home
  • press home (one's) advantage
  • press home your advantage
  • press in
  • press into
  • press into service
  • press on
  • press onto
  • press onward
  • press out
  • press out of
  • press somebody/something into service
  • press something home
  • press the button
  • press the flesh
  • press the flesh, to
  • press the panic button
  • press the right button
  • press together
  • press/push the panic button
  • pressed for cash
  • 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!
  • Stop the presses! Hold everything!
  • the gutter press
  • yellow press
References in classic literature
The socialist press of the country took up the fight, however, and throughout the reading portion of the working class it was known that the book had been suppressed.
Father had been politely abused in the capitalist press, the tone of the abuse being to the effect that it was a pity so great a scientist should leave his field and invade the realm of sociology, about which he knew nothing and wherein he had promptly become lost.
The Iron Heel
To show that there is a power in the Constitution by which the liberty of the press may be affected, recourse has been had to the power of taxation.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
The chill is almost imperceptible in the fifteenth century; the press is, as yet, too weak, and, at the most, draws from powerful architecture a superabundance of life.
Notre Dame de Paris
Here a little knot of struggling warriors trampled a bed of gorgeous pimalia; there the curved sword of a black man found the heart of a thern and left its dead foeman at the foot of a wondrous statue carved from a living ruby; yonder a dozen therns pressed a single pirate back upon a bench of emerald, upon whose iridescent surface a strangely beautiful Barsoomian design was traced out in inlaid diamonds.
The Gods of Mars
So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand in every appointment in the state, from a president to a postman; while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous class, who must find their reading in a newspaper, or they will not read at all; so long must its odium be upon the country's head, and so long must the evil it works, be plainly visible in the Republic.
American Notes for General Circulation
Several times the noises made by the boat's crew in trimming the sheets to the shifting draught of air roused Van Horn, and each time, remembering the puppy, he pressed him caressingly with his hollowed arm.
Jerry of the Islands
"He's cut off the same piece o' goods as that there cider press and that there character and that there four-seventy-five o' yourn; nobody ever see any of 'em but you, and you'll never see 'em again!"
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
Slowly they pressed me back into the room, and when they had all passed in after me, one of them closed and bolted the door, effectually barring the way against the men of Kantos Kan.
Warlord of Mars
See, here's an officer jammed in too"- different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge.
War and Peace
Mukhorty, buried up to his belly in snow, with the breeching and drugget hanging down, stood all white, his dead head pressed against his frozen throat: icicles hung from his nostrils, his eyes were covered with hoar-frost as though filled with tears, and he had grown so thin in that one night that he was nothing but skin and bone.
Master and Man
I did not answer, but instead reached to my side and pressed the little fingers of her I loved where they clung to me for support, and then, in unbroken silence, we sped over the yellow, moonlit moss; each of us occupied with his own thoughts.
Princess of Mars
"I am thinking, my lord," added she "(for this fellow is too mean for your personal resentment), whether it would not be possible for your lordship to contrive some method of having him pressed and sent on board a ship.
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
The man who carried her was now forced to turn and fight off the enemy that pressed forward past Number Twelve.
The Monster Men