risky business
Playing with fire
Risky business is an undertaking with significant potential for loss, danger, or failure.
The phrase often carries a tone of understatement or warning: Investing in startups is risky business.
It gained cultural currency from the 1983 film of that name, sometimes invoked with knowing irony when someone courts trouble.
- startupNew business enterprise
- venture capitalStartup growth financing
- failureLack of success
- perilSerious threat of harm
- hazardSource of potential harm
insurance · speculation · gamble · entrepreneurship · bold move · leap of faith · precariousness · volatility · thin ice · Tom Cruise · danger zone · liability · jeopardy · hedge your bets · unpredictability · loss · roll the dice · all or nothing
- risk phrasestake a chance, take a gamble, go for broke, roll the dice, go all in
- Risk-Takingplaying with fire, rolling the dice, taking chances, living on the edge, going for broke
risky businesssafe bet
Likely winning wager
sure thing · money in the bank · slam dunk · tried and true · playing it safe
risky businessplaying it safe
Avoiding unnecessary risk
safe choice · sound judgment · due diligence · measured response
risky businesssure thing
Guaranteed outcome or agreement
certainty · slam dunk · done deal · foregone conclusion · money in the bank
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