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- Practice the English pronunciation of touch wood with real speech in context.
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- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To make contact with wood to avert bad luck, in accordance with a folk practice.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To make contact with wood to avert bad luck, in accordance with a folk practice.
- [Interjection]
- (idiomatic, UK, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India) Hopefully; said while touching something wooden, to avert superstitious bad luck from what has just been said.
- [Conjunction]
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) supposing (that something bad happens); what if (something bad happens); God forbid
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