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sticks one's neck out

sticks one's neck out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stick one's neck out.

Meaning of stick one's neck out

Verb

stick one's neck out (third-person singular simple present sticks one's neck out, present participle sticking one's neck out, simple past and past participle stuck one's neck out)

  1. (idiomatic) To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position.
    • Uncle Tom's study was a place I seldom entered during my visits to Brinkley Court, because when I did go there he always grabbed me and started to talk about old silver, whereas if he caught me in the open he often touched on other topics, and the way I looked at it was that there was no sense in...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

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Sticks one's neck out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stick one's neck out.

Words near sticks one's neck out in the dictionary

  1. sticks one on
  2. sticks one's dick in crazy
  3. sticks one's foot in it
  4. sticks one's foot in one's mouth
  5. sticks one's head in the sand
  6. sticks one's neck out
  7. sticks one's nose into
  8. sticks one's oar in
  9. sticks one's tongue out
  10. sticks out
  11. sticks out a mile

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