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