run the risk of doing sth
to do something although something bad might happen because of it:
If you tell him the truth, you run the risk of hurting his feelings.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taking risks
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer
- ante
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- dare
- expose
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- neck
- risk
- sail close to the wind idiom
- skate
- stick (sth) out
- stick your neck out idiom
- stunt
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