Sentences with phrase «to stick one's neck out»

Don't ask me because I don't stick neck out for that.

No law society would want to stick its neck out on such an issue if it didn't have to.

The weak - hearted do not stick their neck out when they are tested by time, they run for the hills at the first hint of danger.

The entire team really stuck their neck out for me and went above and beyond.

Why do these high - profile experts stick their necks out with these predictions?

At the risk of sticking our neck out, let's start with the obvious one: they all want to start a family.

I am going to stick my neck out here and say that their advocates have invited it in making their initial case for research.

They must have been pretty sure, or they wouldn't have stuck their necks out like that.

Quick tip: Don't be afraid to stick your neck out by trying to get into a new industry and take a risk and ask for help from friends.

I'll stick my neck out there and would bet that within 12 months the tier 1 markets may be primed for a rude awakening.

All without even sticking your neck out and risking much of anything... other than a small investment of time.

It's still in the «theoretical» stage, so I won't stick my neck out yet by explaining what it is.

So he was sticking his neck out big time doing that.

I don't usually stick my neck out, but I'm confident.

The vast membership in agreement with our vision of the future will have to physically stick their necks out, for quite awhile, to assist in keeping the fire of change blazing.

Someone who is willing to stick their neck out for principal.

• Only a fool or an editor would stick his neck out on a question like that.

You're right that I'm taking a risk, and I know I'm really sticking my neck out when I invest in unusually high dividend stocks.

Unless someone else is already doing it, we shouldn't stick our necks out.

Not surprisingly, this picture has Casablanca coursing through its veins, what with its World War II time period, its bustling bar setting, a couple (Dolores Moran and Walter Molnar) on the run from Nazis, a laidback piano player (Hoagy Carmichael), and Bogart as an apolitical smoothie who sticks his neck out for nobody — indeed, about all that's missing are those illusive letters of transit.

In The Drop, Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini play two Brooklyn cousins trying to make ends meet on the fringe of gangster life without sticking their necks out too far.

Your supervisor can be very supportive, but they are unlikely to stick their neck out if senior members of the department are prejudiced.»

Now that Ryan Coogler is back with his follow - up in the much more high profile Creed, this would be my chance to really see if the young director is truly worth sticking my neck out as a film critic to praise with a best - of proclamation.

Willem Dafoe plays the motel's put - upon manager Bobby, who runs The Magic Castle like a loving but exhausted father: chasing rent, putting out fires, and mediating conflicts, but also sticking his neck out for the guests.

After all, he's just a mere U.S congressman, who's never stuck his neck out before and who has been quietly playing by the rules (for the most part) over the past decade.

All credit to Ken — on a day a poll shows him neck and neck in the battle for London, he's still sticking his neck out for a cause that he believes in even though the party is reported to have expelled eleven people for doing the same.

I mean look at the recent results and findings for the gulf stream around Europe, this is bad news but no climate scientist stuck their neck out and stated that this was even potentially catastrophic, just that more research needs to be done.

Empathetic people who work together are so bonded that they have no problem sticking their necks out for whomever they believe in.

In a press release in December, GAP legal director Tom Devine said, «Dr. Ben - Artzi was a model corporate citizen who discovered SEC violations that could incur serious liability, and stuck his neck out internally to warn bank management.

Holloway stuck his neck out on occasions to protest against teachings and principles, and the practices he perceived to be informed by them, which derogate in one way or another from the fully divine Jesus Christ.

In the decades since, while our country stuck its neck out for marine mammals, a new local trade in cruelty picked up steam, largely hidden from the wider Australian community: live animal export.

Needless to say, in spite of my own manager sticking her neck out for me and trusting my argument was backed by thorough research, she faced multiple committee appointments, work group deliniations, and agenda priorities that progressed slow enough for JACHO to arrive and determine in their own inspection that this policy was not only inappropriate, but worthy of several thousand dollars of fines.

As for Sen. Ritchie she's just trying to blend and keep the governor happy so why stick her neck out for woman.

If in the next 18 months the city begins to sour on its new executive, the pols who stuck their necks out early will look like heroes with foresight.

I am not sticking my neck out very far when I forecast that none of them will form the next government of Britain.

«But ultimately the leadership had made their decision in terms of their preferred candidate... I had a number of supporters sticking their neck out for me.

Given all this, you have to admire the way Lent sticks his neck out on behalf of Neo-Confucianism.

Timber buyers do not like to stick their necks out over a wood they do not know, says Charles Townsend of the merchant Milland Fine Timbers.

Later he worked in Hoffmann's lab and returned to graduate school at Chicago, where he got his PhD «Phil stuck his neck out for me.

«EVEN A TURTLE STICKS HIS NECK OUT TO GO FORWARD» So, now I'm ready to stick something into something & have some fun.

Iam older honest, and have no drama, have my own income, tell it like it is my hubby passed looking for friendship and want to travel not alone, scary idea but Iam sticking my neck out but no dummy, like peace, love art, love the water.

After twice saving Catholicism from nefarious hoo - ha, globetrotting symbologist Robert Langdon sticks his neck out for everybody in Inferno, proving tedium is nondenominational.

For example, one month's award was to the staff giraffe, a teacher who was always sticking her neck out for others.

Then the WSJ stuck their necks out to say that the reader is coming as early as next month.