10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAVE SOMEONE'S NECK»
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1
Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... see PAIN. put your neck on the block: see put your head on the block at
BLOCK. save someone's neck: see save someone's skin at SAVE. stick your neck
out: see STICK. up to your neck in Oheavily involved in something onerous 239
neck.
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... snatch; bail out; Nautical bring off; informal save someone's bacon, save
someone's neck, save someone's skin. wANTONYMS endanger. 2 the fifteenth
century farmhouse has been saved from demolition: preserve, keep safe, keep,
protect, ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
The idea of saving someone's skin goes back to the late 16th century, a century
before save someone's neck is recorded. See also BACON. A boxer in imminent
danger of being knocked or counted out may be saved by the bell [M20th] for the
...
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General Knowledge of English Literature
To save someone's neck—to helpsomeone out ofavery unpleasant situation. To
rubberneck—to listen to somebody else's conversation or read his newspaper
over his shoulder. Shoulder To shoulder out—to grab someoneelse' job.
same difference save it save one's own skin save someone's neck say one's
piece say the word say what? says you! scale back scale up scare the life out of
me school of hard knocks scoot over scot free scratch around for something
scratch ...
his own confessional about how he too took the illegal --- it may have been viable
, but illegal nevertheless --- means to reach the objective of defeating the designs
of the bosses and the politicians who as cohorts tried to save someone's neck.
7
A World Treasury of Riddles
In this North Carolina version of an old “neck- riddle” [a term coined by Archer
Taylor for those riddles that literally save someone's neck], a king promises a
slave freedom if he can make a riddle that the King cannot “onriddle,” or solve.
Psalm 51 came to be known as the “neck verse” (because it had the power to
save someone's neck). By the 19th century, only four crimes in England were
capital crimes: murder, treason, arson (the illegal setting of property on fire) in a
royal ...
9
The Seamless Seat: Creating the Ideal Connection with Your Horse
I would make sure there was some word that means "stop, immediately" and
means nothing else, for that could save someone's neck someday in an
emergency. I reserve "whoa" for an immediate halt, and "wait" for slowing down.
Horses ...
10
American idioms dictionary:
... down someone's neck □ by the nape of the neck □ get it in the neck □ in
some neck of the woods □ millstone about one's neck □ neck and neck □ pain
in the neck □ risk one's neck to do something □ save someone's neck □ stick
one's ...