hard neck

noun

1. informal.
   audacity; nerve

Example Sentences

"No immediate surgery was required and I have been sent home in a hard neck brace that I'll be living in 24/7 for the next four months as my neck hopefully heals itself," she wrote.

From BBC

If you are lucky, he may also bring out a bulb or two of the pickled hard neck garlic that the restaurant ages for more than a year, until the crunchy cloves become almost translucent under their ruddy skins.

From Los Angeles Times

I gave Czar a slight touch of the spur, and urged him on with the usual pat on his powerful hard neck; he leaped through the grass as if he hardly touched the ground, and I was obliged to set my hat tightly on my head for fear of losing it, for the pressure of the atmosphere was so great that I could hardly breathe.

From Project Gutenberg

A hard neck line or chains and ties repeating the point of her chin will make it appear more angular.

From Project Gutenberg

I pat Brilliant's smooth, hard neck, and he shakes his head, and strikes an imaginary butterfly with one black fore-leg, and I draw my rein a thought tighter, and away we go, much to the admiration of that good-looking man with moustachios who is leaning on his umbrella close to the rails, and smoking the cigar of meditation as if the park was his own.

From Project Gutenberg