touch wood
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touch wood verb
- To make contact with wood to avert bad luck, in accordance with a folk practice.
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touch wood interjection
- Hopefully; said while touching something wooden, to avert superstitious bad luck from what has just been said.“And the reds are going to avoid relegation this year, touch wood.”
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