break one's neck
Example Sentences
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I'm making you a great deal of trouble," she said as she slowly descended the rickety steps, "but one might easily break one's neck here.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
To my mind the injunction sounded very like forbidding one to break one's neck.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
"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
On the way home, when the newly-created angel is hastening heavenward, one may break one's neck.
From Stories and Pictures by Isaac Loeb Peretz
It doesn’t do, either, to break one’s neck being over zealous.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
