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词汇 out-on-a-limb
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out on a limb


idiom
having an opinion that is different from most people's and is unpopular: (意见)未得到众人赞同的,孤立的
She's going out on a limb in criticizing her own party leadership.她对自己所在党的领导提出的批评并没有得到大多数人的赞同。
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Examples of out on a limb


out on a limb
They will be the country cousins, left outonalimb.
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By failing to address these major problems, the report leaves small producers, the public and the environment outonalimb.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I advise her not to put herself outonalimb.
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They wanted to get themselves outonalimb.
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It is impossible to accept an amendment whose effects will be to put certain people outonalimb and give them a specific concession.
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There can be no doubt that the scope of our capital taxes puts us way outonalimb in comparison with other countries.
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I am, no doubt, outonalimb in saying so, but that is the logic of the thing.
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Why should we be the only ones to be always outonalimb?
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Are we going to leave them outonalimb?
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Supporters of that view are outonalimb.
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Experience in the second world war with the paratroopers showed that they were left outonalimb.
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It is true that he did not go outonalimb in support of it.
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To her credit, it puts her outonalimb almost in comparison with her colleagues.
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And now the reward of the miners is to be thrown outonalimb, with whole communities threatened.
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At any rate, we are bound in honour not to leave them outonalimb.
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