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A fool and his money are soon parted
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Accident waiting to happen
Adventures are for the adventurous
At
stake
Bet on a lame rooster
Bet the ranch
Buckley's
chance
Burned at the
stake
Calculated risk
Cat in Hell's
chance
Cause for concern
Chance
of a lifetime
Chance
would be a fine thing
Chance
your arm
Chinaman's
chance
Clear and present
danger
Danger, Will Robinson ( A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space )
Det the
Threat
( Nickname of basketball player Detlef Schrempf )
Dice with death
Dire consequences
Down to the last out ( A baseball expression meaning to have one last
chance
)
Drinking in the last
chance
saloon
Even
chance
False jeopardy ( plot device in TV melodramas where
danger
is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm )
Fat
chance
Fighting
chance
Flirting with disaster
Fly by the seat of your pants
Give Peace A
Chance
( John Lennon song )
Go out on a limb
Go through fire and water for
Got a tiger by the tail
Got nothing to lose
Half a
chance
Hazard
a guess
Hazards of the job
Here goes nothing
High wire act
Idle
threat
In with a
chance
Invest
with power
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it ( Maurice Switzer quotation )
Jump at the
chance
Last
chance
Live dangerously
Main
chance
Not a chinaman's
chance
Not the ghost of a
chance
Nothing ventured nothing gained
Occupational
hazard
On the off
chance
Our entire economy is in
danger
Out of
danger
Play chicken
Put your head into the lion's mouth
Put your head on the block
Risk averse
Risk capital
Risk life and limb
Risk management
Risky
business
Run the risk
Russian roulette
Sail close to the wind
Snowball in hell's
chance
Stake
your claim
Stare into the abyss
Stick your neck out
Stranger
danger
Take a
chance
on me ( ABBA lyric )
Take a
gamble
Take your life in your hands
Tempting fate
The Monte Carlo theory
The Peerless Leader ( Nickname of Frank
Chance
)
The Phantom
Menace
( George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series )
The Prince of
Menace
( Nickname of actor Vincent Price )
Thrills and spills
To save and invest, talk to Natwest ( Natwest Bank advertising slogan )
Triple
threat
Try your luck
Yellow
peril
You don't get a second
chance
at a first impression
You must speculate to accumulate
You only get one
chance
to make a first impression
You only live once