make bold
make bold
To do something that is (or could be seen as) surprising, daring, and perhaps inappropriate. This phrase can be used before such a question to soften it. May I make bold and ask for a second helping? I wouldn't presume to make bold and suggest any wrongdoing on the councilor's part.
See also: bold, make
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
make bold
Also, make so bold as. Dare, presume, take the liberty of doing something, as in Let me make bold and ask you to back me as a member, or I will not make so bold as to criticize a respected scholar. This expression was frequently used by Shakespeare but is heard less often today. [Late 1500s]
See also: bold, make
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
make bold
To venture: I will not make so bold as to criticize such a scholar.
See also: bold, make
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
- be so bold
- be/make so bold
- make so bold (as to do something)
- be so bold as to (do something)
- be so bold as to do
- have the (brass) neck to (do something)
- have the neck to do something
- have the nerve to (do something)
- have the nerve to do something
- better left unsaid