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take the plunge

vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To get engaged 2 (context idiomatic English) To begin any major commitment

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Take the Plunge

Take The Plunge was an early evening game show that was produced by Thames Television and aired on the ITV network for one series between 4 October and 6 December 1989, the programme was hosted by comedy actress Su Pollard.

Usage examples of "take the plunge".

But what they mean was that if Wan-To were to take the plunge so that he could live as long as one of those fair-sized black holes—.

Indeed at the end of the town tram line they walked far down a deserted strand overlooking the big bay that had once been such a busy naval base, and Ganagweh stopped at some boulders and stripped off her clothes and ran screaming out into the water, bursting back out in a flurry of whitewater, shrieking, her lustrous dark skin gleaming in the sun as she dried off with her fingers, flinging the water at Budur and daring her to take the plunge.

Which made me think that maybe someday I might even take the plunge.