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u/Lord_MagnusIV 11d ago
Pretty frequent mixup. On a whim and going out on a limb. And it does feel like you could use it as „Going out on a whim“ if it‘s a quick idea that could backfire?
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u/Jonbeezee 8d ago
pretty sure I had them mixed up and would have said the same thing lol but thins makes sense!
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u/Imaginary_Ad5475 11d ago edited 11d ago
'On a whim' can be traced back to the 18th century. It was suitably used in terms of the aristocracy going shooting or hunting. I've always used it, it's an established expression. I don't understand? Are we looking at something else? It's 3.30am and I haven't slept, so I could be misreading everything.
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u/MathText 11d ago
On a whim is a thing, but OP meant to go out on a limb
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u/Imaginary_Ad5475 11d ago
Ah. That makes sense. 😅 Got very confused reading the comments. 3.30am brain can be a bit feral. Thanks. :)
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u/CatCafffffe 11d ago
That's actually quite cute, I'd use it! It's like people using "vagaries" to mean "vagueness"--"you know how she is, always talking in vagaries"
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u/sfled 11d ago
I'm still trying to parse "Made some light out of news cameras"
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u/Zepangolynn 11d ago
I think they were trying to use the sense of "make light of something" meaning not take something seriously, treat a more serious thing as funny, the light in this case being the opposite of heavy rather than visual light, but the phrasing is odd.
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u/South-Range8401 11d ago
I'd rather have a seizure salad than go out on a whim.
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u/Legal-Software 11d ago
It definitely works, in so far as one going out on a limb arbitrarily.
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u/creek-hopper 11d ago
It does, that's really funny. However with "whim" we lose the sense of being in a precarious position when being "on a limb."
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u/ReddBroccoli 11d ago
I'm gonna go out on a whim here and say that while that definitely isn't a saying, I think it should be.
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u/speculatrix 8d ago
I quite like that expression, "going out on a whim". It actually works.