Take (one's or someone's) life in(to) (one's) (own) hands informal verb phrase
Do something risky or dangerous that could result in the loss of one's or someone else's life or livelihood
I won't allow him to take his life into his own hands with that old motorcycle.
Jin took his life into his own hands by swimming alone in the river.
Don't trust people so easily! You are taking your live into your hands.
Do you know you're taking our lives into your hands?
Used when you talk about one's feelings of sadness or pain, especially because of lost love or one-sided love
Used to encourage one to accept the difficult or bad experiences that life throws upon him or her
Used to say that life includes not only happiness but also toughness too.
To suffer massive losses in the process of doing something
The verb "take" should be conjugated according to its tense.