| 单词 | out on a limb |
| 释义 | out on a limbhaving anopinionthat is different from most people's and isunpopular: （意见）未得到众人赞同的，孤立的She'sgoingout on alimbincriticizingher ownpartyleadership.她对自己所在党的领导提出的批评并没有得到大多数人的赞同。 Liked, or not liked, by many people
Examplesofout on a limbout on a limb One doen't go too faroutonalimbproposing that selection is important in biology. From theCambridge English Corpus They will be the country cousins, leftoutonalimb. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 By failing to address these major problems, the report leaves small producers, the public and the environmentoutonalimb. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English I advise her not to put herselfoutonalimb. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They wanted to get themselvesoutonalimb. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is impossible to accept an amendment whose effects will be to put certain peopleoutonalimband give them a specific concession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There can be no doubt that the scope of our capital taxes puts us wayoutonalimbin comparison with other countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am, no doubt,outonalimbin saying so, but that is the logic of the thing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should we be the only ones to be alwaysoutonalimb? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Are we going to leave themoutonalimb? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Supporters of that view areoutonalimb. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Experience in the second world war with the paratroopers showed that they were leftoutonalimb. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is true that he did not gooutonalimbin support of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 To her credit, it puts heroutonalimbalmost in comparison with her colleagues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 And now the reward of the miners is to be thrownoutonalimb, with whole communities threatened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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