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calculated risk
an action that may fail but has a good chance to succeed
The company took a calculated risk when they opened a new store in a very quiet area.
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  • call (someone or something) into question or call into question (someone or something)
  • call (someone) names
  • call (someone) on the carpet
  • call (someone`s) bluff
  • call a meeting
  • call a meeting to order
  • call a spade a spade
  • call for (someone or something)
  • call for (someone)
  • call in (someone) or call (someone) in
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  • poetic justice
  • check on (someone or something)
  • go to pot
  • dig (someone or something) up or dig up (someone or something)
  • dwell on (something)
  • in one`s shoes
  • clue (someone) in or clue in (someone)
  • in on (something/a secret)
  • start in as (something)
  • keep (someone) posted

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    Wanting to get drunk is natural Possibly

    The drunken monkey hypothesis put forward by Dr. Robert Dudley of the University of California suggests that human attraction to ethanol (pure alcohol) may have a genetic basis.He argued that the primate ancestor of homo sapiens had a high dependence on fruit as a food source, and consequently developed a genetic attraction to ripe and overripe fruit, which contains you guessed it ethanol. Hurrah.

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