put your neck on the line
to do something that you know might fail and spoil other people's opinion of you or cause you to lose money:
There's a lot of money at stake here and none of the partners wants to put his neck on the line.
No one wants to put their neck on the line and predict an outcome.
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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