stick your neck out

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to do or say sth when there is a risk that you may be wrong

   - Why'd you stick your neck out? - No good reason.

In the movies · 4

• I stick my neck out for nobody.Casablanca1943
• And if he was really smart,Mission: Impossible - Fallout2018
• Maybe I'm the only guy that sticks his neck out.Saboteur1942
• You have covered up corruption in your department, never sticking your neck out for the innocent.Spiral2021
• - Why'd you stick your neck out? - No good reason.Key Largo1948

Learn it in full scenes

• Casablanca1943
  • Ugarte Hands Rick the Letters
  • Ferrari Tries to Buy Rick's Café
  • Renault Warns Rick About Laszlo

From the same entry

• stick in your mind
• stick in your throat
• stick to your guns
• put the boot in
• put two fingers up at
• put the knife in
• stand out a mile
• mud sticks
• poke your nose into
• put your oar in
• stand out like a sore thumb
• tell where to put