harm's way
Where injuries happen
Harm's way appears almost exclusively in the phrase in harm's way or out of harm's way, meaning in or out of danger.
The expression typically describes physical peril: Firefighters put themselves in harm's way every day.
It can also apply to other kinds of risk: Keep your investments out of harm's way.
- perilSerious threat of harm
- in the crosshairsFixed as target
- assaultViolent offensive act
- combat zoneActive military conflict area
- war zoneArea of active conflict
defenselessness · hazard · jeopardy · unguardedness · evacuation · riskiness · front line · warfare · susceptibility · insecurity · safeguard · precariousness · danger zone · ground zero · path of destruction · threat · line of fire · under fire
harm's waysafety
Freedom from harm
out of harm's way · out of danger · security · safe haven · sanctuary
harm, harms, harmed, harming, harmful, harmless, harmfully, harmlessly, harmfulness