Talk:danger zone

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danger zone

A zone of danger. -- Liliana • 02:37, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes. NiSoP. Delete. Actarus ^{(Prince d'Euphor)} 06:34, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Delete, fails WT:CFI#Idiomaticity as the meaning is easily derived from the sum of the parts. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:11, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

I believe there are substantial idiomatic senses not included in the current definition. These should be added. See, e.g.

• 2010, Misty Evans, I'd Rather Be in Paris, p. 160:

  A low moan sounded in his throat and the intensity of their kisses shot back up into the danger zone.

• 2007, Pat Tucker, Led Astray, p. 68:

  When he eased into the danger zone and gently fingered my clit, I shamelessly spread my legs a little wider.

• 2006, JoAnn Ross, E. C. Sheedy, Jill Shalvis, Bad Boys Southern Style, p. 175:

  He slid his hand to her waist, across her tummy, and every butterfly in her body was set loose to flap and fly. She shook a negative even though it killed her — and his hand was slipping down toward her danger zone.

Not actual "danger" in either case. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:47, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Maybe, but perhaps it's just a poetic use of danger, so in that case it is actual danger, just a poetic form of it. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:55, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree with MG, except I don't think there is much "maybe" to it. It might be metonymy (2010) or an extension of (deprecated template usage) zone to non-physical spaces (2006 and 2007). The extension of "zone" is an example of what seems to me to be the nearly universal extension of any spatial term to time and to other realms that are not literally spatial but commonly thought of and spoken of in spatial terms. DCDuring TALK 16:26, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

I see you point. As I have often demonstrated to my wife, almost any sentence is susceptible to a non-literal connotation if said with the right emphasis. For example, she will say "Honey, can you put a little celery in my soup?", and I'll say "Oh, I'll put a little [air quotes] celery in your soup!", and then she'll roll her eyes and say, "you're disgusting". It's a little ritual that we have. bd2412 T 16:38, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing that :) 86.176.209.178 20:52, 21 October 2011 (UTC).

keep this is a common phrase that is not easily understand by sop searching.Acdcrocks 21:15, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

At least I understand easily danger + zone. --Hekaheka 02:03, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

I'd say delete, especially as the suggested definition introduces the idea of a region to be avoided, and this is not supported by the citations claimed. Dbfirs 08:40, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

• Having thought it over further, I say keep because danger is a noun, not an adjective, making the phrase grammatically unintuitive. If a place presents danger, we would say it is a "dangerous place" or a "dangerous field", "dangerous building", etc., not a "danger place", "danger field", or "danger building"; however, I would find it at least somewhat awkward to say we are going to a "dangerous zone" or "zone of danger" rather than a "danger zone". I would be interested to see what sort of collocations come with "danger" as opposed to "dangerous". bd2412 T 03:18, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Keep per figurative use. DAVilla 05:31, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Keep This instantly made me think of the figurative use in Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop." Dug up some more cites and added a second sense. Astral (talk) 23:19, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Kept. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 20:27, 12 August 2012 (UTC)