stuck 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