Phrase thesaurus
Risk Phrases
86 phrases and expressions related to "risk".
Phrases
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- Accident waiting to happen
- Adventures are for the adventurous
- At stake
- Bet on a lame rooster
- Bet the ranch
- Buckley's chance
- Burned at the stake
- Calculated risk
- Cat in Hell's chance
- Cause for concern
- Chance of a lifetime
- Chance would be a fine thing
- Chance your arm
- Chinaman's chance
- 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)
- Dice with death
- Dire consequences
- Down to the last out (A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance)
- Drinking in the last chance saloon
- Even chance
- False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
- Fat chance
- Fighting chance
- Flirting with disaster
- Fly by the seat of your pants
- Give Peace A Chance (John Lennon song)
- Go out on a limb
- Go through fire and water for
- Got a tiger by the tail
- Got nothing to lose
- Half a chance
- Hazard a guess
- Hazards of the job
- Here goes nothing
- High wire act
- Idle threat
- In with a chance
- Invest with power
- 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)
- Jump at the chance
- Last chance
- Live dangerously
- Main chance
- Not a chinaman's chance
- Not the ghost of a chance
- Nothing ventured nothing gained
- Occupational hazard
- On the off chance
- Our entire economy is in danger
- Out of danger
- Play chicken
- Put your head into the lion's mouth
- Put your head on the block
- Risk averse
- Risk capital
- Risk life and limb
- Risk management
- Risky business
- Run the risk
- Russian roulette
- Sail close to the wind
- Snowball in hell's chance
- Stake your claim
- Stare into the abyss
- Stick your neck out
- Stranger danger
- Take a chance on me (ABBA lyric)
- Take a gamble
- Take your life in your hands
- Tempting fate
- The Monte Carlo theory
- The Peerless Leader (Nickname of Frank Chance)
- The Phantom Menace (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
- The Prince of Menace (Nickname of actor Vincent Price)
- Thrills and spills
- To save and invest, talk to Natwest (Natwest Bank advertising slogan)
- Triple threat
- Try your luck
- Yellow peril
- You don't get a second chance at a first impression
- You must speculate to accumulate
- You only get one chance to make a first impression
- You only live once