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give hostage to fortune
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- (idiomatic) To take an action or make a statement that is risky because it could cause one trouble later.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Marriage and Single Life. Collected in Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed, 2nd edition 1612.
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
- 1837, Francis Joseph Grund, The Americans, in Their Moral, Social and Political Relations, page 169, Marsh, Capen and Lyon
- 1982 July 1, Mr. M. O’Leary, Dáil Éireann, volume 337, Houses of the Oireachtas, Ireland [1]
- As I say, there are no answers to date on these serious issues.... It is understandable in human terms that a Government would wish to survive, to do better things perhaps, but so far this House has been left in total ignorance of the policy package to be offered by this Government and their day-to-day operation on which this vote of no confidence is based, on their mishandling of the economy. We can give no hostage to fortune. On their work so far they do not deserve a vote of confidence here today.
- 2001 November 13, John O'Donoghue, Dáil Éireann, volume 543, Houses of the Oireachtas, Ireland [2]
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Further reading
- “hostage to fortune” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “a hostage to fortune” (US) / “a hostage to fortune” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “a hostage to fortune” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “a hostage to fortune” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “a hostage to fortune” in the Collins English Dictionary
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