touch wood वाक्य

Up the hill in the Touch Wood furniture store, Mazer Iqbal, a second-generation Pakistani who rose from poverty to open his own business, only to see its windows smashed one recent weekend, said that he, too, felt little in common with the youths down the road.
In addition, I've made contributions to the content of the encyclopedia-however, rather than improve the articles themselves, I improve the links between them-I've been involved in Portal : Trains, and alongside Daniel Bryant completely re-wrote Portal : Scotland, which is currently under a WP : FPOC that at the moment is looking like it's passing ( * touch wood * ).
"' Knocking on wood "'- in Britain and Australia the phrase is "'touch wood "'- is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely stating that one is doing or intend to do so, in order to avoid " tempting fate " after making a favourable observation, a boast, or declaration concerning one's own death or other unfavorable situation beyond one's control.