Phrase thesaurus
Danger Phrases
122 phrases and expressions related to "danger".
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)