put your neck on the line
Definition
› to do something that you know might fail and spoil other people's opinion of you or cause you to lose money: There's a lot of money at stake here and none of the directors wants to put his neck on the line. No one wants to put their neck on the line and predict an outcome.Taking risksGambling and bookmaking
(Definition of put your neck on the line from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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put your foot in it idiom
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put your hand in your pocket idiom
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put your head over/above the parapet idiom
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put your heart and soul into sth idiom
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put your money where your mouth is idiom
- put your neck on the line idiom
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put your shirt on sth idiom
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put your thinking cap on idiom
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put yourself across phrasal verb
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put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
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put yourself out phrasal verb
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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
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- chance your arm idiom
- flirt with sth phrasal verb (DANGER)
- gamble on sth phrasal verb
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard verb
- play chicken idiom
- play with fire idiom
- pull a stunt idiom
- put your head over/above the parapet 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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