touch（或〈主北美〉knock on）wood

touch（或〈主北美〉knock on）wood said in order to prevent a confident statement from bringing bad luck 用手碰碰木头, 但愿老走这种好运： I haven't been banned yet, touch wood. 我尚未遭禁, 但愿老走这种好运。 [ORIGIN: with reference to the custom of touching something wooden to ward off bad luck.]

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• Tarsiidae
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• methanearsonic acid
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• disyllabic
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• tablespoons
• italicized
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• anticodon
• pestiferous
• quarter dollar
• Down
• headraces
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• you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours
• third-rate
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• take the words (right) out of sb's mouth
• proboscis monkeys
• relativistic velocity
• skirtless
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• run flat
• Three-Tier Agreement
• doorposts
• photochromism
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• cynical
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• victual
• paleobiological
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• Heathrow Airport
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• consubstantially
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• out of sight
• fibrefills
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• the Pleistocene
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• flight planning
• nourishest
• Rogernomically
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• Sundas
• echolalia
• anything to do with
• men in blue
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