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take the plunge
Idioms and Phrases
Venture something, commit oneself, as in You've been living together for a year, so when are you going to take the plunge and get married? It is also put as make the plunge , plunge alluding to diving in a body of water. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
It's only been about 18 months since they decided to take the plunge and focus fully on the band but they go back much further.
But you're hesitant to take the plunge because you feel like you've already paid off half the car, and you don't want to feel like you spent $20,000 with nothing to show for it.
We decided to take the plunge, and our mortgage payment more than doubled in the process, going from $2,150 to $4,650.
Sean and James are far from the only famous musical offspring to take the plunge and add to their family's illustrious musical heritage.
If you plant in spring,†Jorgensen says, “We are watering that first full season until the fall rains come. In the spring of the next year, you take the plunge, stop watering and say ‘OK, let’s see what survives.’â€
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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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