break one's neck
Example Sentences
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It doesn’t do, either, to break one’s neck being over zealous.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
That is bad sport, that riding, especially when one mounts such a beast as that, which stumbles and throws one off so as to nearly break one's neck.
From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
"One might break one's neck if one were careless," he continued in a musing tone.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
It's stupid, what with those endless trees and moss everywhere and broken statues, and holes in which one might break one's neck at every step.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
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 Theodore Roosevelt
