arriesgar
risk ; gamble ; take + risks ; chance.
By conscious or unconscious fixation on this single, already passé, facet of data processing technology we risk totally ignoring the other functions of a catalog.
In the case of bookshops the function of 'buying' calls for real skill since the bookseller is gambling with his (or her) capital in purchasing the goods.
Unfortunately, most librarians are unwilling to take limited risks to learn about new software.
There is, as yet, no scientific basis for measuring how far the reliance on these key indicators can be chanced.
arriesgar el cuello [También usado en el orden stick + Posesivo + neck out]
stick out + Posesivo + neck
put + Posesivo + proverbials on the line
put + Posesivo + balls on the line
put + Posesivo + nuts on the line
This lack of consistency has created a breach of trust between DGIS and those academics who were sticking out their neck by becoming involved in activities that were often frowned upon by many of their superiors.
Those same people you call 'rich pigs' have at one time or another put their proverbials on the line so that poor people like you can have a job and something to complain aboutRead more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/investors-say-no-to-australia-20120524-1z7uj.html#ixzz2EMLgJmcK.
That's for those who like to sit around and talk about ideas and idly stroking each other but don't like to put their balls on the line and do things.
He risked his career and put his nuts on the line, all because he's a good cop and wants to bring bad guys to justice.
arriesgar el cuello (por)
stick + Posesivo + neck out (for)
But commercial businesses do this all the time: somebody sticks a neck out, and gets promoted or loses neck depending on results.
arriesgar la vida
risk + life and limb
play + Russian roulette
risk + Posesivo + life
risk + Posesivo + neck
The draw of earning up to 30 pounds per cadaver without risking life or limb proved too tempting for some of the more barbarous resurrectionists, however, leading them to commit murder.
People who buy foods from roadside vendors or caterers that do not have health permits 'are playing Russian roulette'.
Risking their lives, Iraqi shepherds venture into these deadly fields to dig up mines planted during the Iran-Iraq war two decades ago.
And the news coverage of the girl named Katrina Kivi, who'd risked her neck to speak sense into a crowd of angry students, had just begun.
arriesgar mucho
play (for) + high stakes
The article 'Playing for high stakes' discusses the effects of the current recession on US publishers.
arriesgar + Posesivo + vida
put + Posesivo + life on the line
This is not about censorship or copyright but about a young man (and others) who put their lives on the line to defend books and the building that housed them.
arriesgarse
take + a gamble
take + the chance
take + the plunge
go out on + a limb
take + chances (on)
take + Posesivo + chances
The College for the Distributed Trades library in London took a gamble in the summer of 87 and chose an automated library system that had never been tested in the UK.
The library director does not want to take the chance that by allowing the trustees to get active he might lose partial control of the library operation to an 'outsider'.
The article is entitled 'Internet access to OCLC: should the smaller library take the Internet plunge?'.
The article 'CONSER goes out on a limb' is part of an issue devoted to serials experimentation and collaboration.
Rosa's parents took a chance on their future by emigrating from Mexico to the United States.
So I decided to take my chances and sneak away quietly on a day when Fabiola had a group meeting at her lab.
arriesgarse a
run + risk
expose + Reflexivo + to
We run grave risks of being regarded as ivory tower navel-gazers if we ignore the widespread practical applications of bibliographical work.
In more than one occasion he exposed himself to enemy fire and grenades by covering the bodies of those whom he was aiding with his own.
arriesgarse a decir
hazard
'I suppose we could go to the board of county commissions,' she hazarded, after a longish pause.
arriesgarse innecesariamente
flirt with + danger
court + danger
Just by being in the proximity of a motocross race or snowboarding competition can help you start flirting with danger.
Always where the action is, he courts danger with a smile, but his charm can sometimes be a lethal weapon.
no arriesgarse
play it + safe
Barack Obama is playing it safe in the final week of the election, but his Achilles' heel might be taxes.
quien nada arriesga nada gana
nothing ventured, nothing gained
In today's recession it seems that the saying 'nothing ventured, nothing gained' could be re-written as 'nothing ventured, nothing lost'.