tempting fate

He was tempting fate, but no one was much inclined to notice.

It was tempting fate for a man of his years to expose himself deliberately to such dangers.

They had so far escaped death, as if by a miracle, and they were cautious of again tempting fate.

More than once Don considered tempting fate by a descent through the clouds, and each time the peril deterred him.

Indeed at the end of a month I felt capable of tempting fate upon my own initiative once more.

There is no more tempting fate, there is no more shirking the battle—there is life, there is life to be lived!