break one's neck
Example Sentences
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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
It's stupid, what with those endless trees and moss everywhere and broken statues, and holes in which one might break one's neck at every step.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
"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)
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
