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neck and neck	Very close in progress, as in a race or contest.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
pencil-neck	An insubstantial person; a weakling.	(5.00 / 1 vote)
brass neck	A person with gall.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
brass neck	Gall, shamelessness, cheek.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
brass-neck	To behave boldly or shamelessly.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
pencil-neck	A person with a very thin neck.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
pain in the neck	Someone or something which is annoying, irritating or inconvenient.	(3.00 / 1 vote)
breathe down someone's neck	To follow someone too closely, making it uncomfortable for them.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
neck of the woods	A local neighbourhood or region.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
stick one's neck out	To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators	(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's easy to forget that the initial objective was to drain the swamp	Only because it seems so urgent.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
pencil-necked	Having a very thin neck.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
pencilneck	A person with a very thin neck.	(0.00 / 0 votes)

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