dangerous ground

Lear’s television comedies, as radical as they were conventional, had a lasting effect because they weren’t afraid to venture onto dangerous ground.

"Legislative supermajorities already have enormous power; when they wield that power to strip away even the offices of the minority, they are treading on very dangerous ground."

“I want to talk to you as a friend, and very confidentially,” Johnson began, “because I think we’re skirting on dangerous ground.”

In theory, the very notion of majority rule puts minority rights on dangerous ground, since a right ceases to be one when subject to the shifting winds of political majorities.

“We’re on very dangerous ground if the Court is considering overturning decades of established law that prevents government employees from pressuring students to pray in public schools,” she said.