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run a risk

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run a risk (of something) and run the risk (of something)
to take a chance that something (bad) will happen. I don't want to run the risk of losing my job. Don't worry. You won't have to run a risk.
See also: risk, run


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Still it was too bad for him to allow me even to run a risk of having a cheque returned.
Do you know that you run a risk of being lost in the marshes?
"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and what you had best do with him is to leave him to take his chance whether he be lost or not, for the horses we shall have when we come out victors will be so many that even Rocinante will run a risk of being changed for another.
 
 
 
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