in the neck

1. see pain in the neck.

Example Sentences

On Thursday, as federal agents canvassed a neighborhood near Utah Valley University, where Kirk was speaking when he was hit in the neck with a single bullet, some residents offered them water.

From Los Angeles Times

It appears to show 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr. rising from his seat on a Charlotte light rail train to stab an unsuspecting Zarutska in the neck with a pocketknife.

From Slate

And Benny Johnson exhorted his followers: “This is the full, uncensored video of Iryna Zarutska getting slaughtered. After 5 stabs in the neck with a knife she slowly loses consciousness and collapses into a pool of blood, terrified and alone. Don’t look away.”

From Slate

If we take Meta, the biggest of them all, what they try to do is apply sensitive content labels to warn people to prevent them from accidentally seeing someone being shot in the neck.

From Slate

Kirk was killed after being struck in the neck with a single shot.

From Los Angeles Times