break one's neck
Example Sentences
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"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
"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)
It should have a good prism eyepiece with an angle tube attached so it would not be necessary to break one's neck in reading high altitudes.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
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
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
