| 释义 |
risk one's neckPut one’s life in danger: I am not risking my neck for anyone...- A soldier risking his neck to keep the peace abroad should not have to worry about facing charges in a foreign court.
- He risked his neck in speeding, overcrowded buses with bald tyres, he was shot at by bandits, robbed and spat at, obliged to sleep in malarial flop houses and insanitary trains and to wait interminably.
- Following a period of mature reflection over Christmas, the man who said that the people of Ayr were his life and blood decided not to risk his neck by submitting himself for election before them.
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