Risky Phrases

Phrases

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• An accident waiting to happen
• Armed and dangerous
• Bet on a lame rooster
• Calculated risk
• Courting disaster
• Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close movie)
• Flirting with disaster
• Fox guarding the henhouse
• Glass cliff
• He drives like Barney Oldfield
• High wire act
• In harm's way
• 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)

• Long shot
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• On dangerous ground
• Open Pandora's box
• Riding for a fall
• Risk averse
• Risk capital
• Risk life and limb
• Risk management
• Risky business
• Run the risk
• Sail close to the wind
• Skating on thin ice
• Touch and go