break one's neck

Example Sentences

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"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

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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright

It doesn’t do, either, to break one’s neck being over zealous.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

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