break one's neck
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"One might break one's neck if one were careless," he continued in a musing tone.
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It is easy to mount the ladder, but the question is not to break one's neck.'
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On the way home, when the newly-created angel is hastening heavenward, one may break one's neck.
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He heard that there were large cities in the world, with beautiful women ready to be loved, with whom one drank champagne in gorgeously decorated rooms; that rich people rode fast horses to death, climbed mountains on which one might break one's neck or drop from exhaustion, and sailed their own yachts—and he longed to do all these things.
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To my mind the injunction sounded very like forbidding one to break one's neck.
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