词汇 | throw caution to the winds |
释义 | Idiom throw caution to the windsthrow caution to the wind(s) to take a risk.You could always throw caution to the wind and have another glass of wine. throw caution to the wind(s)To abandon one's cautiousness in order to take a risk. You can't live life completely reserved, you know. You've got to throw caution to the wind every now and then. After my father won a bit of money at the race tracks, he began throwing caution to the winds and gambling everything we had there. throw caution to the windsAlso, throw discretion to the winds. Behave or speak very rashly, as in Throwing caution to the winds, he ran after the truck, or I'm afraid she's thrown discretion to the winds and told everyone about the divorce. This expression uses to the winds in the sense of "utterly vanishing" or "out of existence," a usage dating from the mid-1600s. The first recorded use of throw to the winds was in 1885. |
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