词汇 | put-neck-on-the-line |
释义 | put your neck on the lineidiom to do something that you know might fail and spoil other people's opinion of you or cause you to lose money: 冒(失败、名誉受损或金钱损失)的风险 There's a lot of money at stake here and none of the partners wants to put his neck on the line.这牵扯到一大笔钱,没有哪个合伙人愿意担这个风险。 No one wants to put their neck on the line and predict an outcome.没人愿意冒险预测结果。 Taking risks adventurer all in be skating on thin iceidiom bet the farm/ranchidiom broke compromise expose gamble have/put your head on the blockidiom hazard high wire high-stakes imperil put/lay something on the lineidiom re-expose risk run the risk of doing somethingidiom sail sail close to the windidiom skate |
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