on a limb

ADJECTIVE

unsafe

Synonyms

STRONGEST

hazardous perilous risky treacherous uncertain unreliable unsound unstable untrustworthy

STRONG

insecure

WEAK

alarming chancy erratic explosive fearsome hanging by a thread on thin ice precarious shaky slippery threatening ticklish touch and go touchy undependable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

certain honest reliable safe secure stable strong sure true trustworthy

WEAK

harmless protected

Example Sentences

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“I’m going to go out on a limb and say that we got more laughs than all those films combined.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Coaches have had to put themselves out on a limb.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

I may go out even further on a limb.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2024

“I’m not going out on a limb to say they had Black friends in their homes,” she says.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

The barred owl was perched on a limb halfway down Frightful’s Mountain.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George