break one's neck
Example Sentences
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On the way home, when the newly-created angel is hastening heavenward, one may break one's neck.
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
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 is easy to mount the ladder, but the question is not to break one's neck.'
From Count Br?hl by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
"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
