take your life in your hands
Definition
› to do something that is very dangerous, especially where you risk death: Every time you go parachuting you're taking your life in your hands.Taking risksGambling and bookmaking
(Definition of take your life in your hands from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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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
- stick your neck out idiom
- tempt fate/providence idiom
- up the ante idiom
- venture on/upon sth phrasal verb
- venture verb
Topic:
Taking risks
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