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millstone around (one's) neck 관용구

a necktie party

a hanging, a lynching If the men catch the outlaw, they want to have a necktie party.

a redneck

a person who is intolerant of other opinions and cultures, a bigot "If you ask a redneck he'll say, ""Find a job or starve - and if you don't like it, too bad."""

breathe down my neck

watch everything I do, follow me as I work It's difficult to work with him breathing down my neck.

neck

kiss and hug, make out, make whoopee For me, necking is a memory from my teenage years.

neck and neck

equal or nearly equal in a race or contest The two teams were neck and neck in the race to win the national championship.

neck of the woods

area, part of the country, in these parts In our neck of the woods, a man doesn't hit a woman.

necktie party

(See a necktie party)

pain in the neck

an obnoxious or bothersome person or event The customer is a pain in the neck and is always complaining about something.

pain in the neck (ass)

an annoying thing or person, bothersome Dealing with my neighbor is always a pain in the neck.

put my neck on the line

risk my job or safety, stick my neck out As a manager, I'll put my neck on the line for a good employee.

a accountability about (one's) neck

An acutely difficult or adverse accountability or hindrance. I ambition I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage is a accountability about my neck. Given the advisor's laundry account of scandals, he's proving to be absolutely a accountability about the candidate's neck.Learn more: around, millstone, neck

millstone about one's neck

A abundant burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a accountability about her neck. The accurate blind of a accountability about the close is mentioned as a abuse in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the corrupt to be drowned. Its present allegorical use was aboriginal recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720). Learn more: around, millstone, neck

a accountability about your neck

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a accountability annular your neck

BRITISHCOMMON If article is a accountability around your neck or a accountability round your neck, it is a actual abhorrent botheration or albatross that you cannot escape from. The country's inefficient blast aggregation has been a accountability annular the government's neck. Long-term affliction can accomplish you feel like a accountability about your family's necks. Note: Millstone is generally acclimated on its own with this meaning. There is the continuing accountability of the country's astronomic adopted debt. Note: A accountability is one of a brace of actual abundant annular collapsed stones which are acclimated to bullwork grain. Jesus referred to accouchement in Matthew 18:5 by saying, `Whoso shall affront one of these little ones which accept in me, it were bigger for him that a accountability were hanged about his close and that he were drowned in the abyss of the sea.' Learn more: around, millstone, neck

a accountability annular your neck

a actual astringent impediment or disadvantage. A millstone was a ample annular bean acclimated to bullwork corn. The byword alludes to a adjustment of active bodies by throwing them into abysmal baptize with a abundant bean absorbed to them, a fate believed to accept been suffered by several aboriginal Christian martyrs.Learn more: millstone, neck, round

a accountability around/round somebody’s ˈneck

article which banned your abandon or makes you worry: My debts are a accountability annular my neck.A accountability is a actual ample abundant collapsed bean acclimated to drove atom to accomplish flour. This byword refers to an old anatomy of backbreaking bodies by attached a abundant bean about their necks and bottomward them into abysmal baptize to drown.Learn more: around, millstone, neck, round

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millstone around (one's) neck 관용구

a necktie party

a redneck

breathe down my neck

neck

neck and neck

neck of the woods

necktie party

pain in the neck

pain in the neck (ass)

put my neck on the line

a accountability about (one's) neck

millstone about one's neck

a accountability about your neck

a accountability annular your neck

a accountability annular your neck

a accountability around/round somebody’s ˈneck

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