Usually means: Testing boundaries beyond reasonable limits.
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  1. push one's luck: Merriam-Webster
  2. push one's luck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. push one's luck: Wiktionary
  4. push one's luck, push ones luck: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (push one's luck)

verb:  (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To take an excessive risk or to attempt some task unlikely to succeed, especially after having already been unexpectedly lucky.


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