I used the phrase "tickling the dragon's tail" recently when I ran some maintenance code in production without testing it first (because there really wasn't a way to test it outside of production, long series of failures to get to this point, I know). I used to call it cowboy coding.

FWIW, this was the first time I'd done something like that in about 5 years and I felt horrible during and afterwards even though nothing went wrong. I felt like I should have given up a sobriety coin or something. Feels bad. Like falling off the wagon.