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risky business

noun as in crapshoot

noun as in hazard

noun as in peril

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Which is why some consider crossovers (a man who performs in both gay and straight adult movies) risky business.

Inviting Pippa Middleton to your wedding is always a risky business, as her sister found out.

The person who engages in the risky business bears the burden of culpability.

But Soares warns that in economic downturns, women are more likely to submit themselves to risky business.

Betting on anything in this conflict is always risky business.

Life itself I submitted, was a far too risky business as a whole to make each additional particular of danger worth regard.

I'll try to keep you posted, but it's risky business for me.

Before nightfall he had made his dispositions for a very risky business.

Our ship, the Columbia, proved a beauty, in every way fit for the risky business we were engaged upon.

They receive deposits, and negotiate exchanges and remittances just like private banks, but do not undertake risky business.

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On this page you'll find 162 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to risky business, such as: risk, iffy proposition, shot in the dark, and spin of the roulette wheel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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