take a risk

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to do sth even though you know that sth bad could happen as a result

   Sometimes it's necessary to take a risk.

In the movies · 8

• Sometimes it's necessary to take a risk.Blue Velvet1986
• sometimes, you just have to take a risk.Aladdin2019
• I would never ask anyone to take a risk I wasn't willing to take.Atlas Shrugged: Part I2011
• Come on, Hazel Grace. Take a risk.The Fault in Our Stars2014
• Besides, you are too old to take a risk.You Don't Mess with the Zohan2008
• Aaron, you have to take a risk.Trainwreck2015
• Take a risk, sod it, thank you very much! I haven't been lucky, I've lost everything!Brexit: The Uncivil War2019
• Hey, hey, come on tonight Take a risk and take a rideCome from Away2021

Learn it in full scenes

• Blue Velvet1986
  • Sandy Tells Jeffrey About the Singer
  • Jeffrey Plans the Apartment Break-In
  • Sandy Tells Jeffrey Her Robin Dream
• Aladdin2019
  • The Mariner Tells Aladdin's Story
  • Aladdin's One Jump Ahead Chase
  • Aladdin Shares His Rooftop Home
• Atlas Shrugged: Part I2011
  • Dagny Defies James Over Rearden Metal
  • Dagny and Rearden's Metal Deal
  • Rearden Gives Lillian a Metal Gift

From the same entry

• at risk
• at the risk of doing
• at risk to yourself
• do at your own risk
• run a risk
• run the risk
• risk life and limb

More idioms

• learn your lesson
• turn a blind eye
• like hell
• out of your way
• cut to the chase
• to myself
• hold it
• on television
• in the distance
• be on the telephone
• more like
• be sick