stick one's neck out

Meaning: (idiomatic)Totake a risk, putting oneself in avulnerableposition.1960,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, inJeeves in the Offing, London:Herbert Jenkins,→OCLC:Uncle Tom's study was a place I seldom entered during my visits to Brinkley Court, because when I did go there he always grabbed me and started to talk about old silver, whereas if he caught me in the open he often touched on other topics, and the way I looked at it was that there was no sense insticking one's neck out. It was more than a year since I had been inside this sanctum[…]2014, David Bleiler,TLA Video & DVD Guide 2004: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide‎[1], St. Martin's Griffin,→ISBN:Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code andsticks his neck outfor “no one.”2021January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Investment, not cuts, is how to generate a big 'return to rail'”, inRAIL, number923, page47:And unfortunately, while Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps (one of the few half-competent ministers in the Cabinet) is clever enough to understand this, he does not really care enough tostick his neck out, given that he is very likely to be heading off for a bigger job in the inevitable Cabinet reshuffle once the virus is under control.

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