run with scissors | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Tobehaverecklessly.2005, Bob Wallace,Flying with Scissors: A Different Perspective on Childhood, page48:Maybe instead of overprotecting, we should allow Katie, and the thousands other childhood cancer survivors like her, to play in traffic,run with scissors, and walk blindfolded with suckers sticking out of their mouths! Right?2008, Andrew Gideon,Harrier Hawks Fly High, page 6:It is dangerous, dumb, and highly delinquent (CRAZY) for a professional educator to goad our poor little misunderstood and hormonally-challenged children torun with scissors.2010, Roger Allen Cook,Into Deeper Grace, Xulon Press,page148:I wonder if God has made a note on your record and mine that says; “he tends torun with scissors, but I've got him covered by My grace”. Perhaps your scissors thing is; getting too busy to spend time in the world, or getting too interested in the business of others, or perhaps allowing the world to set up wrong priorities in your life.2012, Scott Gesinger,Pleiades Rising, page88:“No. That happened when I was a kid. I was playing at a neighbor’s house, running around with a knife.”[…]“Holy shit. Mister responsible undercover government badass was the kid whoran with scissors!”; (idiomatic)Totakeacalculated risk.1998June, Jim Gorman, “Get out!”, inBackpacker,page67:Fly solo. Sure it’s safer to go with a partner, but every once in awhile[sic]you have torun with scissors.2011, Ron Henchel,The Guilty Mirror, page81:I'm a firm believer that we should all “run with scissors” from time to time.2019, Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, “Educating in complex times: an introduction”, in J. Moss Breen, H. Abduljawad, J.N. Font-Guzmán, editors,Running with Scissors: Leading in Uncertainty,page94:The leadership stories show how leaders can “run with scissors” in uncertain spaces as they engage in self-reflection, flexibility, systems thinking, shared leadership, charisma, and teamwork to successfully lead.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seerun,‎scissors.

Examples:

EN: What'd you do, run with scissors?
ES: ¿Qué has hecho, corretearla con las tijeras?
EN: We're just gonna play with matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy - I don't know his name.
ES: Sólo vamos a jugar con cerillas, a correr con tijeras, y a aceptar caramelos de desconocidos.
ES: Así es desde el principio. Es una forma reconfortante y fría de ver la cuestión.
EN: Never run with scissors?
ES: ¿Más vale malo conocido?
EN: First, you got to learn not to run with scissors!
ES: Primero aprenderás a no correr con tijeras.
EN: Look both ways crossing the street wear galoshes and, in art class, don't run with scissors.
ES: Mire ambas maneras que cruzan la calle las galochas de uso y, en la clase de arte, no corra con los tijeras.
EN: Don't run with scissors.
ES: No corras con las tijeras.
EN: Don't run with scissors in your mouth.
ES: No corras con tijeras en la boca.
EN: I run with scissors, too.
ES: Yo también jugué con fuego.
EN: On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, who I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiancé ran me through with a fricking broadsword!
ES: El lunes voy a tener que contarles a mis alumnos de jardín... a los que les enseño a no correr con tijeras ¡que mi prometido me atravesó con una maldita espada!
EN: My mommy says, "Don't run with scissors. "
ES: Mami dice: "No corras con tijeras".
EN: Yeah, if you shouldn't run with scissors you definitely shouldn't run with hedge clippers.
ES: Sí. Si no corres con unas tijeras no deberías hacerlo con una bordeadora de césped.
EN: - Don't run with scissors?
ES: - ¿No corras con tijeras?
EN: [CLICKS TONGUE] If you don't start driving, duck, I'm going back into that baby-sitterless house to run with scissors and play with matches.
ES: Si no comienzas a conducir iré a la casa de esa niñera novata correré con tijeras y jugaré con fósforos.
EN: Well, why don't we just run with scissors or talk to strangers?
ES: Bueno, ¿porque simplemente no corremos con tijeras o hablamos con extraños?
EN: For those inclined to feed the bears, beat the light, traverse thin ice, run with scissors, get-rich quick, here, but for the grace of God goes you.
ES: Para aquellos proclives a dar de comer a los osos, ganar a la luz, andar por hielo fino, correr con tijeras, hacerse ricos rápido, tomad, pero por la Gracia de Dios se dirige a vosotros.

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