Roll the Dice

To roll the dice can also mean to take a calculated chance. It does not necessarily bear the same risk as in a game of chance on a casino table. Companies take on commercial risks to grow their business in a highly competitive environment. It is a gamble that has the elements of both luck and ability - chances taken based on years of experience in particular trade and careful study of the marketplace.

A traditional Chinese restaurant wants to grow its business. It decides to roll the dice on its successful menu by introducing European delicacies as side dishes. As the Chinese saying goes: The word "Weiji" means both danger and opportunity.

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Load of hogwash

A load of hogwash refers to food fit for swine. As a matter of speech, the expression means nonsensical or unintelligible stuff that someone uses to explain for why things happen. To give it body, it is food fit for domesticated pigs generally called swine.

Reliable workshops will tell you a refrigerant top-up service is a load of hogwash. It is also a waste of your money. A low gas level means a leak in the car's air conditioning system. It needs immediate repair as a gas top-up offers you only temporary relief.

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swine food rubbish nonsense garbage

shoot from the hip

If people figuratively shoot from the hip, it means they say what they think without mincing words. When speakers shoot from the hip, they keep people off-balance, so to speak.

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These academic advisers are a polar opposite of the Dean of the Law Faculty who is analytical, intentioned and deliberative. These advisers shoot from the hip when talking without mincing their words. They keep people off-balance when saying what comes to mind.

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