Danger Phrases

Phrases

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A step too far
• Accident waiting to happen
• Alarm bells began to ring
• Aliens among us
• Armed and dangerous
• Asking for it
• Asking for trouble
• Behind the eight ball
• Borrow trouble
• Breathe again
• Brush with death
• Buckle your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy ride
• Bungee jumping
• Calculated risk
• Clear and present danger
• Come to a sticky end
• Dance of death
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close movie)
• Dangerously cheesy (Cheetos advertising slogan)
• Det the Threat (Nickname of basketball player Detlef Schrempf)
• Dire consequences
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• False alarm
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson book)
• Fear Is The Key (Barry Newman movie)
• Fear is the mind-killer
• Fear the worst
• Flirting with disaster
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Get into deep water
• Get into hot water
• Go and play in the traffic
• Got a tiger by the tail
• Hang on by your fingertips
• Hanging by a thread
• Hazard a guess
• Hazards of the job
• Here comes trouble
• High wire act
• Hold on by your fingertips
• Home alone
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• Idle threat
• In the line of fire
• In trouble
• Into the lion's den
• Intruder alert
• Iron fist in velvet glove
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It's a jungle out there
• Like a fox in a henhouse
• Live dangerously
• Look death in the eye
• Looking for trouble
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know

• Make trouble
• Mayday mayday
• Near death experience
• No fear
• Nose for trouble
• Occupational hazard
• On dangerous ground
• On red alert
• On the alert
• Our entire economy is in danger
• Out of danger
• Out of the frying pan into the fire
• Paralysed with fear
• Play chicken
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Public enemy
• Put the fear of God into someone
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Radio alarm
• Raise the devil
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Red alert
• Risk averse
• Risk capital
• Risk life and limb
• Risk management
• Roller coaster
• Run the risk
• Sail close to the wind
• Slippery slope
• Sound the alarm
• Stare into the abyss
• Stir up a hornet's nest
• Stir up trouble
• Stranger danger
• Take your life in your hands
• The Phantom Menace (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Prince of Menace (Nickname of actor Vincent Price)
• The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The brink of disaster
• The female of the species is more deadly than the male
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• There's a storm brewing
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Thrills and spills
• Too close for comfort
• Tornado Alley
• Toxic waste
• Triple threat
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Tummy trouble
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Voice of doom
• Walking across a minefield
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• White knuckle ride
• Without fear or favour
• Yellow peril