网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 put-neck-on-the-line
释义

put your neck on the line


idiom
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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/22 21:34:46