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chance one's arm
vs
skate on thin ice
chance one's arm
verb
To take a risk.
skate on thin ice
verb
To be (or to place oneself) in a risky, potentially dangerous or delicate situation.
How often have the words
chance one's arm
and
skate on thin ice
occurred in a corpus of books?
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