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Что (кто) такое knock on wood - определение
Knocking on wood
![Knocking on wood in the [[Oval Office]] (2015)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katie Beirne Fallon and Shaun Donovan knock on wood.jpg?width=200 "Knocking on wood in the [[Oval Office]] (2015)")
APOTROPAIC TRADITION BELIEVED TO WARD OFF EVIL
Touch wood; Touching wood
Knocking on wood (also phrased touching wood) is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely stating that one is doing or intending to do so, in order to avoid "tempting fate" after making a favorable prediction or boast, or a declaration concerning one's own death or another unfavorable situation.
Knock-knock joke
COMMON FORM OF CALL-AND-RESPONSE JOKE
Knock knock joke; Knock-knock jokes; Knock knock jokes
The knock-knock joke is a type of audience-participatory joke cycle, typically ending with a pun. Knock-knock jokes are primarily seen as children's jokes, though there are exceptions.
knock-on
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Knock on; Knock-on (disambiguation); Knock On
¦ noun
1. chiefly Brit. a secondary, indirect, or cumulative effect.
2. Rugby an act of knocking on.
Примеры употребления для knock on wood
1. "Knock on wood, we see that the situation is getting calmer, the disease has been localized," Gordeyev said, Interfax reported.
2. As for Montenegro, just the mention of the word makes Frumkina knock on wood, fearing to jinx her chance of a quiet week on the beach.
3. But I do know that in the recent primary debates, Republican after Republican invoked Reagan the way Democrats once did Roosevelt, and they vowed, knock on wood, to be a similar kind of president.
4. "This year I am kind of reinvigorated and optimistic and think, ‘Finally, a lead–in (‘Gilmore Girls‘) that makes sense for us.‘ We‘re not opposite ‘Lost‘ and not competing with the WB that had the audience ‘Veronica Mars‘ is trying to get." "It all seems set up for us to do all right, knock on wood," Thomas said.
5. It‘s a distinctive double knock on wood, followed by the bird‘s "kent" calls, so named because it sounds like the bird is saying, "kent, kent, kent." "You walk, wait a period, sit down, let everything quiet down because you‘ve been making a lot of noise," Fredland said.