"stick one's neck out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sticks one's neck out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sticking one's neck out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck one's neck out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck one's neck out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stick<,,stuck> one's neck out"
      },
      "expansion": "stick one's neck out (third-person singular simple present sticks one's neck out, present participle sticking one's neck out, simple past and past participle stuck one's neck out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, David Bleiler, TLA Video & DVD Guide 2004: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide, St. Martin's Griffin",
          "text": "Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code and sticks his neck out for “no one.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Investment, not cuts, is how to generate a big 'return to rail'”, in RAIL, number 923, page 47",
          "text": "And unfortunately, while Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps (one of the few half-competent ministers in the Cabinet) is clever enough to understand this, he does not really care enough to stick his neck out, given that he is very likely to be heading off for a bigger job in the inevitable Cabinet reshuffle once the virus is under control.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position."
      ],
      "id": "en-stick_one's_neck_out-en-verb-Zr3ojWXT",
      "links": [
        [
          "take a risk",
          "take a risk"
        ],
        [
          "vulnerable",
          "vulnerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "wind one's neck in"
        },
        {
          "word": "lead with one's chin"
        },
        {
          "word": "out on a limb"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
          "word": "vaarantaa itsensä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
          "word": "se mouiller"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
          "word": "mouiller sa chemise"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
          "word": "gefa höggstað á sér"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "nadstawiać karku"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "nadstawić karku"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
          "word": "mojarse"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stick one's neck out"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sticks one's neck out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sticking one's neck out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck one's neck out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck one's neck out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stick<,,stuck> one's neck out"
      },
      "expansion": "stick one's neck out (third-person singular simple present sticks one's neck out, present participle sticking one's neck out, simple past and past participle stuck one's neck out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "wind one's neck in"
    },
    {
      "word": "lead with one's chin"
    },
    {
      "word": "out on a limb"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, David Bleiler, TLA Video & DVD Guide 2004: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide, St. Martin's Griffin",
          "text": "Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code and sticks his neck out for “no one.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Investment, not cuts, is how to generate a big 'return to rail'”, in RAIL, number 923, page 47",
          "text": "And unfortunately, while Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps (one of the few half-competent ministers in the Cabinet) is clever enough to understand this, he does not really care enough to stick his neck out, given that he is very likely to be heading off for a bigger job in the inevitable Cabinet reshuffle once the virus is under control.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take a risk",
          "take a risk"
        ],
        [
          "vulnerable",
          "vulnerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
      "word": "vaarantaa itsensä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
      "word": "se mouiller"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
      "word": "mouiller sa chemise"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
      "word": "gefa höggstað á sér"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "nadstawiać karku"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "nadstawić karku"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "putting oneself in a vulnerable position",
      "word": "mojarse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stick one's neck out"
}