Risk life and limbrisk your neck verb phrase
Used when someone is doing something that can cause them to die or be seriously injured
Jacob is risking life and limb to rescue the drowned.
How could you risk life and limb crossing the road just to help a cat?
It is Jack who risked life and limb to rescue me from the fierce fire.
I always pay deep respect to soldiers who risk life and limb to protect the Country.
If you take a flyer (on something), you take a chance, risk, or gamble on it.
This proverb advise you already have your own valuable thing, so you don't need to take the risk of getting something better, which may cause you to lose everything.
1. To grab or make the most of the opportunities when they happens or exists
2. When you take your chances, you take a risk because you may fail.
To do something without considering risks, threats, or consequences
To do something harmful or dangerous to one's health and life