break one's neck
Example Sentences
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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
Instead, there were solemn pines and hemlocks, and as he entered deeper, great caverns appeared in the rocks and narrow gulleys, into which one might easily fall and break one's neck.
From The Magic Soap Bubble by Jones, E. I.
Compared with the Rockies of 1871, the sense of wildness had vanished; one saw no possible adventures except to break one's neck as in chasing an aniseed fox.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry
It doesn’t do, either, to break one’s neck being over zealous.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
To my mind the injunction sounded very like forbidding one to break one's neck.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
