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Meanings of court disaster in English

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Usage of court disaster in English
1
Better to wait this weather out, he declared, than to court disaster.
Ilse Witch
2
I would not fatigue myself nor court disaster by incautiousness, these perilous days.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
3
To dare call one to account-especiallyone like Mrs. Watkins-wasto court disaster.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
4
Would it not have been preferable to accept failure rather than court disaster?
The Top of the World
5
To have taken the air with heated cylinders would have been to court disaster.
The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings
6
To take the field against Ripton without Marsh would have been to court disaster.
Mike
7
So unequal a partition of forces seemed to court disaster.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
8
You court disaster-disasterwhich you refer to as an operation.
A People's Man
9
But no head must wear such a hat at Gorcum unless it would court disaster.
A Wanderer in Holland
10
To hang on would have been to court disaster.
"Contemptible", by "Casualty"
11
Hazlitt was savaged by the Tory press, and is one of those writers who court disaster.
The Guardian
12
Like I said, you like to court disaster.
Shadow fall
13
They were hopelessly lost, and to wander in that densely falling snow was to court disaster.
Greatheart
14
After twenty years an employer was going to court disaster by trying to flirt with her.
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
15
But to stumble was to court disaster because my ankles came into violent contact with the plank bed.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
16
To wait was to court disaster.
Star Hunter
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Court disaster across language varieties
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