Menace Phrases

Phrases

• Brush back (A baseball expression meaning to subvert or threaten verbally)
• Calculated risk
• Clear and present danger
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Det the Threat (Nickname of basketball player Detlef Schrempf)
• Err on the side of caution
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Gnash your teeth
• Hazard a guess
• Idle threat
• 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)
• Loom large
• Occupational hazard

• Our entire economy is in danger
• Out of danger
• Risk averse
• Risk capital
• Risk life and limb
• Risk management
• Run the risk
• Stranger danger
• The Phantom Menace (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Prince of Menace (Nickname of actor Vincent Price)
• Throw caution to the wind
• Triple threat
• Yellow peril