danger zone
English
Noun
danger zone (plural danger zones)
- A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines
- 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.
- (figuratively) the genitals
- 1984, Cyndi Lauper, “She Bop”, in She's So Unusual:
- They say I better get a chaperone / Because I can't stop messing with the danger zone
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References
- “danger zone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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