break one's neck
Example Sentences
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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
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
"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 doesn’t do, either, to break one’s neck being over zealous.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
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
