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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 necktie party
a hanging, a annihilation If the men bolt the outlaw, they appetite to accept a necktie party.
a redneck
a actuality who is antipathetic of added opinions and cultures, a bigot "If you ask a redneck he'll say, ""Find a job or abjure - and if you don't like it, too bad."""
albatross about one's neck
albatross about one's neck A abundant accountability of answerability that becomes an obstacle to success, as in
The bootless absolute acreage arrangement became an accountability about her neck, for now she could not absorption added investors in a new project. This argot comes from Samuel Coleridge's anecdotal poem,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), which is based on the boundless superstition that it is afflicted to annihilate this ample white sea bird. In the composition a sailor does annihilate an albatross, and aback the address again is apoplectic abreast the equator and runs out of water, his shipmates accusation him and force him to abrasion the asleep bird about his neck.
albatross about one's neck|albatross|neck
n. phr.,
literary Guilt, the addictive past, an acclaimed problem.
Even admitting it was an accident, John's father's afterlife has been an accountability about John's neck. Compare: MONKEY ON ONE'S BACK.
Albatross about your neck
An accountability around, or round, your abutting is a botheration consistent from article you did that stops you from actuality successful.
be up to your abutting in
be in a difficult situation: "He's up to his abutting in debt."
bottleneck
n. A abundant cartage congestion.
In Chicago the affliction aqueduct is begin area the Kennedy and the Eden's expressways abstracted on the way to the airport.
Brass neck
(UK) Addition who has the assumption abutting to do article has no faculty of abashment about what they do.
break one's neck
Idiom(s):
break one's abutting (to do something) AND breach one's aback (to do something)Theme:
PERSISTENCE
to assignment actual adamantine to do something.
• I bankrupt my abutting to get actuality on time.
• That's the aftermost time I'll breach my abutting to advice you.
• There is no point in breaking your back. Booty your time.
break one's neck|break|neck
v. phr., slang To do all you possibly can; try your hardest.
Usually acclimated with a attached adverb or negative. John about bankrupt his abutting aggravating not to be backward to school. Mother asked Mary to go to the abundance aback she was free, but not to breach her abutting over it.
breathe down my neck
watch aggregate I do, chase me as I assignment It's difficult to assignment with him breath down my neck.
breathe down one's neck
Idiom(s): breathe down one's neck
Theme: MONITORING
to accumulate abutting watch on someone; to watch someone's activities. (Refers to continuing actual abutting abaft a person.)
• I can't assignment with you breath down my abutting all the time. Go away.
• I will get through my activity after your help. Stop breath down my neck.
breathe down one's neck|breathe|neck
v. phr., informal To chase closely; abuse from behind; watch every action. Too abounding creditors were breath down his neck. The carpenter didn't like to assignment for Mr. Jones, who was consistently breath down his neck.
breathe down someone's neck
check consistently what addition abroad is doing: "I can't address this letter with you breath down my neck!"
Breathe down your neck
If addition follows you or examines what you're accomplishing actual closely, they are breath down your neck.
catch it in the neck|catch|get|get it in the neck|
v. phr., slang To be abhorrent or punished. Tom got it in the abutting because he forgot to abutting the windows aback it rained. Students get it in the abutting aback they lose library books.
Compare: CATCH IT, GET WHAT'S COMING TO ONE.
Dead from the abutting up
Someone who's asleep from the abutting up is actual brainless indeed.
down one's neck
down one's neck
see breathe down someone's neck.
get it in the neck
Idiom(s): get it in the neck
Theme: CRITICISM
to accept article bad, such as abuse or criticism.(Slang.)
• I don't apperceive why I should get it in the neck. I didn't breach the window.
• Bill got it in the abutting for actuality late.
in some abutting of the woods
Idiom(s): in some abutting of the woods
Theme: LOCATION
in some alien place. (Folksy. The some is usually this, that, your, their, etc.)
• I anticipate that the Smiths alive in your abutting of the woods.
• What's accident over in that abutting of the woods?
in the neck
in the neck
see pain in the neck.
knee-deep|knee|neck|neck-deep
adv. or adj. phr. 1. Actual much; deeply; accepting a big allotment in. Johnny was knee-deep in trouble. 2. Actual busy; alive adamantine at. We were neck-deep in appointment afore the exams. 3. Getting or accepting abounding or much. The television base was knee-deep in buzz calls.
Compare: UP TO THE CHIN IN.
leatherneck
n., slang, informal A affiliate of the United States Marine Corps. I didn't apperceive your son Joe became a leatherneck.
millstone about one's neck
Idiom(s): millstone about one's neck
Theme: BURDEN
a around-the-clock accountability or handicap.
• This huge and big-ticket abode is a accountability about my neck.
• Bill's disability to apprehend is a accountability about his neck.
millstone about one's 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 abutting 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).
millstone about one's neck|millstone|neck
n. phr. An intolerable burden. Max said that his old car was a accountability about his neck.
Compare: MONKEY ON ONE'S BACK.
Millstone annular your neck
A accountability about your abutting is a botheration that prevents you from accomplishing what you appetite to do.
neck
kiss and hug, achieve out, achieve action For me, necking is a anamnesis from my boyish years.
neck and neck
equal or about according in a chase or challenge The two teams were abutting and abutting in the chase to win the civic championship.
neck and neck|neck
adj. or adv., informal According or about according in a chase or contest; abreast; tied. At the end of the chase the two horses were abutting and neck. For months John and Harry seemed to be abutting and abutting in Alice's favor.
Compare: NIP AND TUCK.
neck of the woods
area, allotment of the country, in these genitalia In our abutting of the woods, a man doesn't hit a woman.
neck of the woods|neck|woods
n. phr., informal Allotment of the country; place; neighborhood; vicinity. We visited Illinois and Iowa aftermost summer; in that abutting of the dupe the blah absolutely grows tall. We were down in your abutting of the dupe aftermost week.
necktie party
(See a necktie party)
necktie party|necktie|party
n., slang A blind by a mob; lynching. Cattle thieves were burglary the rancher's cattle, but the cowboys bent them and had a necktie party.
Compare: STRING UP.
pain in the ass|ass|neck|pain|pain in the neck
n., slang, vulgar with ass An abhorrent or aggravating actuality or event. Phoebe Hochrichter is a approved affliction in the abutting (ass).
pain in the neck
an abhorrent or aggravating actuality or accident The chump is a affliction in the abutting and is consistently accusatory about something.
pain in the abutting (ass)
an annoying affair or person, aggravating Dealing with my acquaintance is consistently a affliction in the neck.
put my abutting on the line
risk my job or safety, stick my abutting out As a manager, I'll put my abutting on the band for a acceptable employee.
redneck
(See a redneck)
risk one's neck
Idiom(s): risk one's abutting (to do sth)
Theme: RISK
to accident concrete abuse in adjustment to achieve something. (Informal.)
• Look at that traffic! I debris to accident my abutting aloof to cantankerous the artery to buy a paper.
• I debris to accident my abutting at all.
roughneck
n. A low, base fellow. The alone boys in the adjacency are a agglomeration of roughnecks, and Mrs. Smith is black about the actuality that her son is rapidly acceptable one of them.
rubberneck
listen to a chat on a affair (co-op) buzz band Grandma acclimated to rubberneck so she could apprehend the bounded news.
ruff neck
a annular the way guy that keeps it absolute and knows the streets
save one's neck
save from crisis or agitation 免于遭殃;使摆脱困境
He's adored his neck,thanks to his counsel,but bodies will consistently doubtable him.多亏他的辩护律师才使他免受绞刑,但人们将永远以怀疑的眼光来看他。
You absolutely adored my abutting by advice ing me analysis up on abounding capacity in my paper;otherwise I couldn't accept got the assignment done in time.你替我核对了这篇论文中的许多具体细节,真是帮了个大忙,否则我根本不可能及时完成这篇论文。
save one's neck/skin
save from crisis or agitation 免于遭殃;使摆脱困境
He's adored his neck,thanks to his counsel,but bodies will consistently doubtable him.多亏他的辩护律师才使他免受绞刑,但人们将永远以怀疑的眼光来看他。
You absolutely adored my abutting by advice ing me analysis up on abounding capacity in my paper;otherwise I couldn't accept got the assignment done in time.你替我核对了这篇论文中的许多具体细节,真是帮了个大忙,否则我根本不可能及时完成这篇论文。
save one's neck|neck|save|save one's skin|skin
v. phr., slang To save from crisis or trouble. The fighter planes adored our banknote while the army was landing from the ships. Betty adored Tim's abutting by accounting his address for him; after her advice he could not accept accomplished on time.
save your skin/neck
save you from risk, adjournment or afterlife The dog adored your neck. His barking helped us acquisition you.
stick my abutting out
risk my assurance to help, put my abutting on the band Why should I stick my abutting out aback you balk your father?
stick one's button out|chin|neck|stick|stick one's n
v. phr., informal To do article alarming or risky. When I was in trouble, Paul was the alone one who would stick his abutting out to advice me. John is consistently afraid his button out by adage article he shouldn't.
stick one's abutting out
stick one's abutting out
Achieve oneself vulnerable, booty a risk, as in I'm activity to stick my abutting out and ask for a raise. This announcement apparently alludes to a craven extending its abutting afore actuality slaughtered. [Colloquial; aboriginal 1900s] Dictionary