英语词汇“stick one's neck out”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

stick one's neck out

informal Risk incurring criticism or anger by acting or speaking boldly.These writings revealed a first-rate sensibility, a critic ready to stick his neck out and make the necessary judgments, sometimes with acerbity, often with a humorous irony....

Why stick your neck out when you run the risk of offending someone who has the power to slate your most recent journal article, provide a damning review of your book, or leave you off a shortlist?
As I half anticipated, he did not wish to stick his neck out and implicitly criticise rugby.

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单词	stick one's neck out
释义	stick one's neck out informal Risk incurring criticism or anger by acting or speaking boldly.These writings revealed a first-rate sensibility, a critic ready to stick his neck out and make the necessary judgments, sometimes with acerbity, often with a humorous irony.... Why stick your neck out when you run the risk of offending someone who has the power to slate your most recent journal article, provide a damning review of your book, or leave you off a shortlist? As I half anticipated, he did not wish to stick his neck out and implicitly criticise rugby. See parent entry: stick
随便看	(there is) no time like the present there is only one thing for it there is something in —— there it is theremin thereof thereon there or thereabouts thereout there's Theresa Theresa, Mother there's honour among thieves there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip there's more than one way to skin a cat there's more to someone (or something) than meets the eye there's no accounting for tastes (or taste) there's no fool like an old fool there's no law against it there's none so blind as those who will not see there's no (or little or not much) love lost between there's no such thing as a free lunch there's one (or a sucker) born every minute there's (or that's) —— for you