danger n.
a chance, a possibility, a likelihood.
Awaydays 65: Any danger of getting served, mate? | ||
posting at Climbing Online 20 Nov. 🌐 Then again Trad Man ain’t in any danger of getting free rubber from the shoe companies in this lifetime, unless of course he scrounges it from the dumpster out back. |
In phrases
a general phr. of affirmation, no problem, absolutely, truthfully.
The Bankrupt II ii: resource.: A scheme of his, to monopolize sprats and potatoes. pillage.: And it took? resource.: Oh! there was no danger of that. | ||
(con. 1920s) Studs Lonigan (1936) 281: ‘No danger,’ Studs muttered with over-exaggerated confidence. | Young Manhood in||
Spike Island (1981) 38: ‘It’ll take the blinkers off ’im, won’t it, Arthur?’ ‘Put hairs on his chest, no danger.’. | ||
It Was An Accident 94: I was confused. No danger I was confused. | ||
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 125/1: no danger int. = no effect. | ||
Gutted 77: I nodded to the bottle again. ‘Couldn’t leave it, could you?’ ‘Nae danger!’ A shake of the head and then another top-up, right to the brim. |