break one's neck
Example Sentences
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Denis shambled in the rear, vainly exhorting everyone to caution: the slope was steep, one might break one's neck.
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
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
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
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 Heyse, Paul
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
