go out on a limb
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take a risk.
verb
To hazard a guess.
Example Sentences
- "He doesn't want to go out on a limb, but he really should give it a try."
- "Consenting Adult is probably worth watching, if only because it's not every day a TV movie is made about gay people. But don't expect too much. As long as groups like the Moral Majority have power, I doubt TV will be going out on much of a limb for us."
- "I’m going to go out on a limb here. You’re together?"
- "We all see the way you stare at Kessia. From the way you two talk, it sounds like you knew each other on Kadara. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you came here for her."
- "Well, Kevin, as always, I appreciate you going way way out on a limb with these predictions and you know, it's making me wish that I had, you know, perhaps gone further out on a limb."