fraught with danger/peril
fraught with danger/peril
Very risky indeed. Fraught with means “full of ” and is rarely used today except in the sense of something undesirable. The expression, a cliché since the nineteenth century, first appeared in print in 1576 as “fraught with difficulties”; the precise cliché was first cited by the OED as appearing in 1864 in H. Ainsworth’s Tower of London: “This measure . . . is fraught with danger.”
See also: danger, fraught, peril
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- have a nice day
- Have a nice day!
- (something) does not compute
- compute
- Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!
- a sight to behold
- do not pass Go, do not collect $200
- do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars
- 200
- X's and Y's and Z's, oh my!