on a limb

Idioms  

1. see out on a limb.

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Example Sentences

I don’t think I would have been cast in this movie if I didn’t make music, if I didn’t go out on a limb and make an album.

From Los Angeles Times

“Ashton, I think your wife was out on a limb, har har!”

From Literature

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.

From Slate

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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