Meanings
verbride one's luck (third-person singular simple present rides one's luck, present participle riding one's luck, simple past rode one's luck, past participle ridden one's luck)
present singular third person rides one's luck · participle present riding one's luck · past rode one's luck · participle past ridden one's luck
- idiomaticTo avoid failure only by good fortune.
Blackburn rode their luck to beat a battling West Brom as they moved up to seventh in the Premier League table.
2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC
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