Throwing caution to the wind
Posted by Victoria S Dennis on March 19, 2007
In Reply to: Throwing caution to the wind posted by anjali on March 19, 2007
: meaning of "throwing caution to the wind"
If you throw something "to the wind", you are decisively jettisoning it - tossing it away, letting the wind take it and blow it right away out of reach of recovery. (Imagine throwing away a letter, for example.) So if you throw caution to the wind, you are abandoning it completely, knowing that from now on you will have to act boldly - you can't go back to a cautious policy. (VSD)
- Throwing caution to the wind Smokey Stover 20/March/07