69 Metaphors for dangers

9 Danger and honour are his joy; But a fond wife, or wanton boy, May all those gen'rous thoughts destroy.

Danger is a good deal like chawin' terbaccerdum nasty 'til ye git used to it.

After so generous an exculpation of the American people from any desire to pull their own house about their ears, we are left to conclude that the only real danger to be apprehended, in case of a Republican success, is a de facto and de jure dissolution of that union between certain placemen and their places which has lasted so long that they have come to look on it as something Constitutional.

First of all, even if any one does suspect it, the desire is not one repugnant to human nature, and the danger from it is a noble danger.

To youth, life is sweet and danger is life.

Every lawyer employed to any extent in criminal practice knows that in an important case his greatest danger is public opinion.

Perhaps the greatest danger to our government is bribery or overawing of the voter.

The danger of being swept before the furious tide of the driving element was also an accident not impossible.

" They were a group of young war-photographers to whom danger was a magnet.

Their vulgarity is at least a noisy thing; and their great danger is that silence that always comes before decay.

Yet the news which came from Hungary yesterday shows only too clearly that this danger is no fantasy.

The only danger near the entrance of the Tamar is the Hebe Reef, named after a ship lost on it in 1808; it occupies a space of a quarter of a mile, chiefly in an east direction.

The very dangers against which the author of her rule warns her, are a proof that she had many visitors.

The danger's greater, So is the glory.

The thought of her willingly placing one of her subjectseven one so wicked as the Forest Monsterin mortal danger was a hard pill for her to swallow.

On the contrary, to the leaders in London, the danger of losing Ireland became a source of the most perplexing solicitude.

My chief danger, as she had instantly seen, was the chance of Sonia betraying me to the police.

Ben had known from the first that danger was an inevitable element in his venture, and he accepted it just as he had considered it,with entire coldness.

"Ah?" "The danger will in itself be the thing that tempts you," he went on.

The real and dark danger of solitude is the self-absorption that is bound to follow.

'Tis true, my Lord, there danger was a safety; here To be secure I thinke most dangerous.

If Mr. Addison entertained suspicions of Mr. Pope's being carried too far among the enemy, the danger was certainly Mr. Pope's, and not Mr. Addison's.

Of course the dangers and confusions of the plan, a kind of psychological version of one often used in farce (except that it precisely wasn't to be any manner of dream), are such as might well alarm any writerand, one might add, any reader also.

Yes, that is one danger of the poet in London, that he should come to think himself 'somebody'; though, doubtless, in proportion as he is a poet, the other danger will be the greater, that he should deem himself 'nobody.'

Danger is often the best counter-irritant in cases of mental suffering; he found a solace in careless exposure of his life, and learned to endure the trials of each day better by dwelling in imagination on the possibility that it might be the last for him and the home that was his.

69 Metaphors for  dangers