lay sth on the line
to risk harm to something:
I'd be laying my career/life on the line by giving you that information.
informal to say very clearly that something is the case:
You're just going to have to lay it on the line and tell her that her work's not good enough.
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
- 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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