"off a cliff" meaning in Anglais

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Adverb

IPA: \ˈɒf ə klɪf\
  1. En prenant des risques excessifs, sans se poser de questions, avec des conséquences potentiellement désastreuses.
    Sense id: fr-off_a_cliff-en-adv-KABgK0EI Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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    "Littéralement « depuis [le sommet d’]une falaise ». De off et cliff."
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "The Guardian, Tory efforts to downplay cabinet rifts insult intelligence of voters, juillet 2017",
          "text": "(…) saying they were “so obsessed with a hard Brexit that they’re prepared to run the economy off a cliff and they don’t like the fact that Philip is pointing out that we will deservedly lose the next election if we do that”."
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        "En prenant des risques excessifs, sans se poser de questions, avec des conséquences potentiellement désastreuses."
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    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈɒf ə klɪf\\"
    }
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  "word": "off a cliff"
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    "Littéralement « depuis [le sommet d’]une falaise ». De off et cliff."
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