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名詞

danger zone (plural danger zones)

1. A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines.
   • 1983, Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky (lyrics and music), “Maniac”:

     She has danced into the danger zone / When the dancer becomes the dance

   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎:

     The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

2. (figuratively) The genitals.
   • 1984, Cyndi Lauper (lyrics and music), “She Bop”, in She's So Unusual:

     They say I better get a chaperone / Because I can't stop messing with the danger zone

参照

• “danger zone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.