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 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
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
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
"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)
