break one's neck

Idioms  

1. see under break one's back.

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Example Sentences

He thought of the ineptitude of the whole undertaking and, in particular, of those slippery stairs; one might break one's neck there at such an hour of the night.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

Compared with the Rockies of 1871, the sense of wildness had vanished; one saw no possible adventures except to break one's neck as in chasing an aniseed fox.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry

"One might break one's neck if one were careless," he continued in a musing tone.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

"But one can break one's neck," said the miller, "you look as though you would do so some day, you are so daring!"

From The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by Fuller, Fanny

It should have a good prism eyepiece with an angle tube attached so it would not be necessary to break one's neck in reading high altitudes.

From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore

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