touch wood

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

To make contact with wood to avert bad luck, in accordance with a folk practice.

Intj

Hopefully; said while touching something wooden, to avert superstitious bad luck from what has just been said.

Conceptos

tocar madera

mucha suerte

Sinónimos

knock on wood

break a leg

german tinder

amadou

punk

tinder

absit omen

Traducciones

auf Holz klopfen

hout vasthouden

toucher du bois

toca fusta

afkloppen

tocar fusta

χτύπα ξύλο

tahtaya vur

Hals- und Beinbruch

toi, toi, toi

Dieu m’en garde

Mon Dieu

bater na madeira

Etimología (Inglés)

From a folk practice of unclear origin.