๐ŸŒฒTouch wood vs ๐ŸคžFingers crossed

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๊ณตํ†ต์ 

๋‘˜๋‹ค ํ–‰์šด(good luck)์„ ๋น„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•จ.

Touch wood

Knocking(๋ฏธ๊ตญ) on wood (also phrased touching(์˜๊ตญ) wood or touch wood)
ํ–‰์šด์„ ๋น„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•จ

์œ ๋ž˜

  1. ๋‚˜๋ฌด์— ์ •๋ น์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์–ด ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋‘๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋งŒ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฑด ๊ทธ ์ •๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ํ–‰์šด์„ ๋น”(๊ณ ๋Œ€ ์ผˆํŠธ์กฑ)
    (the phenomenon to ancient Celtic peoples, who believed it called on spirits or gods of the trees)
  2. ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ํ„ฐ์น˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ์žกํžˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์—์„œ ๋ฉด์ œ๋˜๋Š” ์ˆ ๋ž˜์žก๊ธฐ ๋†€์ด("Tiggy Touchwood" ,19์„ธ๊ธฐ ์•„์ด๋“ค์˜ ๋†€์ด)์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋จ
    (A more modern theory from folklore researcher Steve Roud suggests it derives from a form of tag called "Tiggy Touchwood" in which players are safe from being tagged if they are touching wood)
  3. ๊ธฐ๋…๊ต์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋„์˜ ์‹ญ์ž๊ฐ€์— ๋ชป ๋ฐ•ํžŒ ์‹ญ์ž๊ฐ€์˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์™€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์‹œ์ผœ ์‹ ์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋นŒ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์„ค
    people knocked on wood to chase away evil spirits or prevent them from listening in when they boasted about their luck, thereby preventing a reversal of fortune. Christians, meanwhile, have often linked the practice to the wood of the cross from Christโ€™s crucifixion.

Fingers crossed

Cross one's fingers, keep one's fingers crossed๋กœ ์“ฐ๋ฉฐ ์•ก๋ง‰์ด๋กœ ๋˜๋Š” ํ–‰์šด์„ ๋นŒ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง‘๊ฒŒ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ ์œ„์— ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์„ ํฌ๊ฐœ์–ด ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์†๋“ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋งํ•จ.

์œ ๋ž˜

์•…๊ท€๋ฅผ ์ซ“๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹ญ์ž๊ฐ€(cross) ๋ชจ์–‘์„ ๋งŒ๋“  ๋ฐ์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜๋œ ํ‘œํ˜„
(it is claimed that in 16th-century England, fingers would be crossed in place of the Sign of the Cross to ward off evils and ill health.)

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