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Definition of Dangerous undertaking
1. Noun. A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).
Generic synonyms: Labor, Project, Task, Undertaking
Derivative terms: Adventure, Adventure, Adventurer, Adventurer, Adventuristic, Adventurous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dangerous Undertaking
Literary usage of Dangerous undertaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811 by Louis] [Simond (1815)
"The state of the obelisk is so threatening, as to make it a dangerous undertaking
even to take it down. fow friends this morning with some regret, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"... but to defend it ourselves, I confess, seems to me a dangerous undertaking.”
The Secretary for India had said, with his well-known emphasis, ..."
3. The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor by Henry Montgomery (1847)
"It was considered on all sides to be a dangerous undertaking, and his party was
considered most emphatically a forlorn hope. That the height would be taken, ..."
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