danger
Roget-categorie 665
5. Words relating to the voluntary powers› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends
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Danger
zelfstandig naamwoord
danger,
peril,
insecurity,
jeopardy,
risk,
hazard,
venture,
precariousness,
slipperiness —
instability
etc.
149 —
defenselessness
etc.
adj.,
exposure
etc.
(liability)
177 —
vulnerability —
vulnerable point,
heel of Achilles† —
forlorn hope
etc.
(hopelessness)
859.
[Dangerous course]
leap in the dark
etc.
(rashness)
863 —
road to ruin,
faciles descensus Averni [Lat.]
[Vergil],
hairbreadth escape.
cause for alarm —
source of danger
etc.
667.
rock ahead
[Approach of danger],
breakers ahead —
storm brewing —
clouds in the horizon,
clouds gathering —
warning
etc.
668 —
alarm
etc.
669.
[Sense of danger]
apprehension
etc.
860.
werkwoord
be in danger
etc.
adj. —
be exposed to danger,
run into danger,
incur danger,
encounter danger
etc.
n. —
run a risk —
lay oneself open to
etc.
(liability)
177 —
lean on a broken reed,
trust to a broken reed —
feel the ground sliding from under one,
have to run for it —
have the chances against one,
have the odds against one,
face long odds —
be in deep trouble,
be between a rock and a hard place.
hang by a thread,
totter —
sleep on a volcano,
stand on a volcano —
sit on a barrel of gunpowder,
live in a glass house.
bring in danger,
place in danger,
put in danger,
place in jeopardy,
put in jeopardy
etc.
n. —
endanger,
expose to danger,
imperil —
jeopard†,
jeopardize —
compromise —
sail too near the wind
etc.
(rash)
863.
adventure,
risk,
hazard,
venture,
stake,
set at hazard —
run the gauntlet
etc.
(dare)
861 —
engage in a forlorn hope.
threaten danger
etc.
909 —
run one hard —
lay a trap for
etc.
(deceive)
545.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
in danger
etc.
n. —
endangered
etc.
v. —
fraught with danger —
dangerous,
hazardous,
perilous,
parlous,
periculous† —
unsafe,
unprotected
etc.
(safe, protect)
etc.
664 —
insecure.
untrustworthy —
built upon.
sand,
on a sandy basis —
wildcat.
defenseless,
fenceless,
guardless†,
harborless —
unshielded —
vulnerable,
expugnable†,
exposed —
open to
etc.
(liable)
177.
aux abois [Fr.],
at bay —
on the wrong side of the wall,
on a lee shore,
on the rocks.
at stake,
in question —
precarious,
critical,
ticklish —
slippery,
slippy —
hanging by a thread
etc.
v. —
with a halter round one's neck —
between the hammer and the anvil,
between Scylla and Charybdis,
between a rock and a hard place,
between the devil and the deep blue sea,
between two fires —
on the edge of a precipice,
on the brink of a precipice,
on the verge of a precipice,
on the edge of a volcano —
in the lion's den,
on slippery ground,
under fire —
not out of the wood.
unwarned,
unadmonished,
unadvised,
unprepared
etc.
674 —
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
tottering —
unstable,
unsteady —
shaky,
top-heavy,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
crumbling,
waterlogged —
helpless,
guideless† —
in a bad way —
reduced to the last extremity,
at the last extremity —
trembling in the balance —
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162.
threatening
etc.
909 —
ominous,
illomened —
alarming
etc.
(fear)
860 —
explosive.
adventurous
etc.
(rash)
863,
(bold)
861.
uitdrukking
incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim [Lat.] —
nam tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet [Lat.].
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