stick one's neck out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position.
Example Sentences
- "Uncle Tom's study was a place I seldom entered during my visits to Brinkley Court, because when I did go there he always grabbed me and started to talk about old silver, whereas if he caught me in the open he often touched on other topics, and the way I looked at it was that there was no sense in sticking one's neck out. It was more than a year since I had been inside this sanctum […]"
- "Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code and sticks his neck out for “no one.”"
- "And unfortunately, while Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps (one of the few half-competent ministers in the Cabinet) is clever enough to understand this, he does not really care enough to stick his neck out, given that he is very likely to be heading off for a bigger job in the inevitable Cabinet reshuffle once the virus is under control."