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📖 Определения и значения для слова neck

📒 the part of the body between the head and the shoulders

He tied a scarf around his neck.
I woke up with a stiff neck.
Giraffes have very long necks.

📒 the part of a piece of clothing that fits around the neck

He wore a casual shirt with an open neck.
Her dress had three buttons at the neck undone.
What neck size do you take?

📒 having the type of neck mentioned

a round-necked sweater

📒 a long narrow part of something

the neck of a bottle
the narrow neck of land between the lake and the sea
the neck of a guitar

📒 the neck of an animal, cooked and eaten

neck of lamb

📒 to have a lot of something to deal with

We're up to our neck in debt.
He's in it (= trouble) up to his neck.

📒 a combination of confidence and lack of respect

I didn't think she would have the brass neck to do that.

📒 to watch closely what somebody is doing in a way that makes them feel anxious and/or annoyed

I can’t get any work done with you breathing down my neck.

📒 if a person or an animal wins a race by a neck, they win it by a short distance

📒 roughly holding the back of an animal’s or person’s neck

She grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and threw him out.
The cat picked up her kitten by the scruff of its neck.

📒 to be shouted at or punished because of something that you have done

📒 a difficult problem or responsibility that it seems impossible to solve or get rid of

My debts are a millstone around my neck.
Unemployment was an economic millstone around the country’s neck.

📒 level with somebody in a race or competition

The cyclists were neck and neck as they approached the final lap.

📒 a particular place or area

He's from your neck of the woods (= the area where you live).
What are you doing in this neck of the woods?

📒 a person or thing that is very annoying

That man's a pain in the neck!

📒 to risk losing your job, damaging your reputation, etc. by doing or saying something

It's not a matter that I'm prepared to put my head on the block for.

📒 to risk being killed or injured in order to do something

I'm not going to risk my neck playing rugby with you!

📒 to rescue somebody from a very difficult situation

He's out to save his own political neck.

📒 to try to avoid death, punishment, etc., especially by leaving others in an extremely difficult situation

To save his own skin, he lied and blamed the accident on his friend.

📒 to do or say something when there is a risk that you may be wrong

I’ll stick my neck out and say that Bill is definitely the best candidate for the job.

📒 when you say that you will wring somebody’s neck, you mean that you are very angry or annoyed with them

When he was late again I wanted to wring his neck.

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