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keep you fingers crossed (VLZ_58) | |||
to keep from jinxing (to keep from jinxing the hunt) | |||
knock on wood | |||
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touch wood! | |||
bad harvest (В определенном контексте -аналог "сплюнь!" в русском языке. E.g.: "- Nothing will go wrong. – Bad harvest, bad harvest!" As explained in the "Downton Abbey" series, the superstitious farmers in the old days would shout "bad harvest" when the crop was good so that the gods wouldn't grow jealous of their luck pajohn22) |
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