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dice with death

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dice with death
to do something very dangerous (often in continuous tenses) You're dicing with death driving at that sort of speed on icy roads.
See also: death, dice


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The main lure of this morbidly fascinating film is seeing Portillo dice with death - exposed to CS gas and coming to within an inch of his life in an altitude chamber - a way of dying that's not just painless, it's positively pleasant.
Byline: JONATHAN CASWELL JET-skiers have been warned they dice with death if they try and dodge the bows of ships in the Mersey.
Divers are being warned not to dice with death off the North-East coast, after a series of incidents involving the potentially fatal condition known as `the bends'.
 
 
 
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