be skating on thin ice
Definition
› to be doing something that is dangerous or involves risks: He's skating on thin ice by lying to the police.Taking risksGambling and bookmaking
(Definition of be skating on thin ice from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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be short notice idiom
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be shot through with sth idiom
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be shrouded in secrecy/mystery idiom
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be sitting pretty idiom
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be six feet under idiom
- be skating on thin ice idiom
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be skin and bone(s) idiom
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be snowed under (with sth) idiom
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be soft on sb idiom
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be something of a sth idiom
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be spoiling for a fight idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer noun
- chance verb (RISK)
- chance your arm idiom
- gamble on sth phrasal verb
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard verb
- imperil verb
- play with fire idiom
- pull a stunt idiom
- put your head over/above the parapet idiom
- put your neck on the line idiom
- put/lay sth on the line idiom
- take your life in your hands idiom
- tempt fate/providence idiom
- up the ante idiom
- venture on/upon sth phrasal verb
- venture verb
Topic:
Taking risks
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