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knock on wood
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knock on woodverb
To take a customary action to ward off some misfortune that is believed to be attracted by a presumptuous statement.
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Knock on Wood
Knock on Wood is a song written by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl for the film Casablanca, where it was performed onscreen by Dooley Wilson to music played by pianist Elliot Carpenter. Commissioned by producer Hal B. Wallis, the song is the movie's only original composition.
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Knock on Wood
Knock on Wood is a 1954 comedy starring Danny Kaye and Mai Zetterling. Other actors in the film include Torin Thatcher, David Burns, and Leon Askin. The film was written and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, with songs by Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of knock on wood in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of knock on wood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of knock on wood in a Sentence
I hope we never have an active shooter in a school in Utah, knock on wood. But if we do, I don’t think it would hurt to give kids some ideas of what they should do if there’s an armed person trying to take over the school.
'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
Protocols are put in place, we’ve been testing for some time now with the cases that we’ve had. It’s not unusual. It’s not unique to our team. Obviously, look around the landscape of the league and this country; there’s been a dramatic uptick in cases. Knock on wood, the severity of those cases and the rate of hospitalizations don’t appear to be as dramatic. But it’s still very real.
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