break one's neck
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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 Norman Douglas
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 Émile Zola
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 Theodore Roosevelt
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 Henry Adams
It is easy to mount the ladder, but the question is not to break one's neck.'
From Count Br?hl by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
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