harm's way

English

Noun

harm's way (plural not attested)

1. A place or course of danger.

   He kept his family out of harm's way.

   They put themselves in harm's way.

   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras‎^[1], London, Canto 1, p. 27:

     For in the hurry of a Fray / ’Tis hard to keep out of harm’s way

   • 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: More trains... but advice is not to use public transport”, in Rail, page 8:

     "If it gets crowded and dangerous, we want station closures. And if that doesn't happen, we'll be telling our members to move out of harm's way and into a safe place, which will lead to station closures. [...]"

Usage notes

• This noun phrase is used almost exclusively as the object of prepositions, principally in, into, and out of, and from.
• Uncommonly, way is modified by determiners or adjectives or appears as object of a verb.

Translations

place or course of danger

• Finnish: vaara (fi)