life and limbformal your life and physical health – used especially when this is threatened in some way 生命，生死安危〔尤用于生命受到某种威胁时〕 She risks life and limb every day in her job as an undercover investigator. 她的工作是当密探，每天都要冒生命危险。
life and limb• We're talking serious grievous bodily here, maybe loss of life and limb.• The array of rules and regulations dealing with transport and behaviour on the highway are concerned with protecting life and limb.• This meant I didn't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot.• The Malvern Hills Classic meeting ... now in its fourth year ... isn't all about risking life and limb though.• Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
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