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break one's neck





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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

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

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

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




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