play it safe

Trier expresses it more bluntly: “She won’t,” he predicts, “become one of those vain actors who play it safe.”

Under Armour was accidentally ahead of its time, then lost its nerve and tried to play it safe.

She decided to play it safe, arriving at Los Angeles International Airport with her 4-year-old daughter and fiance in tow six hours early for their Friday afternoon flight home to Albuquerque.

Some of us play it safe, some of us swing for the fences.

But does the same thing apply to the customers who prefer to play it safe, those fixed-income investors?