Peril Phrases

Phrases

• Asking for trouble
• Borrow trouble
• 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)
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Hanging by a thread
• Hazard a guess
• Here comes trouble
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• Idle threat
• In trouble
• 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)
• Looking for trouble
• Make trouble
• Nose for trouble
• Occupational hazard
• Our entire economy is in danger
• Out of danger
• Perish the thought
• Risk averse
• Risk capital
• Risk life and limb
• Risk management
• Run the risk
• Stir up trouble
• Stranger danger
• The Phantom Menace (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Prince of Menace (Nickname of actor Vincent Price)
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• 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
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Yellow peril