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live dangerously

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live dangerously

to not worry about the risks involved in your actions She always felt a powerful attraction to men who lived dangerously.

Related vocabulary: (live) on the edge

See also: live

live dangerously

Take numerous risks, be daring, as in Bill never knows if he'll have enough money to pay the next month's rent-he likes to live dangerously . This expression figured in the work of such 19th-century German writers as Nietzsche, who regarded it as an admirable course of action. Today it is often used with mildly humorous effect, as in the example. [c. 1900]

See also: live