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play it safe
Idioms and Phrases
Also, play safe . Avoid extreme risks, as in I played it safe and bet only a dollar , or Let's play safe and get a backup in case the announced speaker gets sick . [c. 1900]Example Sentences
“I did not get into this public service role to play it safe and to make half commitments to my city,” he said.
If the time change has left you getting outdoors after dark, play it safe and plan ahead with these helpful hints.
In a year where renegade films like “The Substance,” “No Other Land,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “Nickel Boys” and “The Brutalist” were nominated for the industry’s biggest awards, the Oscars chose to play it safe, letting the winners do the difficult work in their speeches.
Do you play it safe with the man who rarely fails to deliver, Salah, at home to a Newcastle defence that is generally half-decent but leaked four against Manchester City and three on Sunday at home to Nottingham Forest?
The most memorable productions may have involved classics of one kind or another, but these works were reborn in stagings that refused to play it safe.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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