flirt with sth
— phrasal verb with flirt uk/flɜːt/us/flɝːt/verb [ I ]
(CONSIDER)
to consider doing something, but not seriously, or to be interested in something for a short time:
I'm flirting with the idea of taking a year off and travelling round the world.
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Trying and making an effort
- a blitz on sth idiom
- all-out
- assault
- attempt
- attempted
- bid
- crack
- go to great lengths idiom
- God helps those who help themselves idiom
- grasp at sth
- grope
- grope for sth
- push
- shoot
- stick
- stretch a/the point idiom
- strive
- strove
- succeed
- suck
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(DANGER)
to intentionally take risks and put yourself in a dangerous or difficult situation:
Like a lot of young men, he flirts with danger.
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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
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- lay sth on the line idiom
- neck
- run the risk of doing sth idiom
- sail close to the wind idiom
- skate
- stick (sth) out
- stick your neck out idiom
- stunt
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