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English Idiom: Out on a limb
Are you the type of person who likes to take a chance when you know you are right?
Have you ever gone out on a limb?
Avoid getting confused because the meaning of out on a limb is different from up a tree.
When you go out on a limb, you do something you believe in, even though others may not think it is the right thing to do.
Going out on a limb often means doing something with a high probability of failure.
But hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
You have to take a few chances in life if you want to succeed.
I’m a firm believer in the power of going out on a limb and making mistakes.
Learning how to take chances and learning from our mistakes will make us more confident in life, and if that means sometimes turning around and going back, well, so be it.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 82.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.