on a limb

1. see out on a limb.

Example Sentences

And that landed them in a morass, going out on a limb with respect to “regulatory” versus “revenue-raising” tariffs, and with the micro largely overshadowing the macro in a way that might have surprised many who listened in.

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I’ll go out on a limb and say whatever those young Saudis at the WWE were thinking, it wasn’t about joining ISIS.

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Bush might have lost by about 5 percentage points in 2024, but the political climate has since shifted in a way that’s more favorable to someone like her, who’s willing to go out on a limb for her beliefs.

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“I’m going to go out on a limb and say that we got more laughs than all those films combined.”

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While Bunker’s farm isn’t open to the public, the Out on a Limb CSA, which he founded, delivers apples to pickup locations in a handful of Maine towns; the fruit’s also sold at Bahner Farm in Belmont, not far from Camden.

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Related Words

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• risky 
• treacherous 
• uncertain 
• unreliable 
• unsound 
• unstable 
• untrustworthy