get it in the neck v.
1. (also get it behind the ear, ...in the back, ...collar button) to be punished severely, to suffer badly, to be harshly criticized.
![]() | Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 66: If anything happened, Beaver Tom was going to get it in the neck first. | |
![]() | News-Courant (Cottonwood Falls, KS) 12 Sept. 2/3: ‘Pistol Johnny got it in the neck, ’n’ his head jest hung on by a strip o’ skin’. | |
![]() | Chimmie Fadden Explains 69: If de owner knowed he’d been blowin off wine on de wrong star he’d get it where de giraffe got de sore troat – in de neck. | |
![]() | Pink ’Un and Pelican 178: This actin’ bloke’s a-going to git it in the neck if I sinks me wad! | |
![]() | Girl Proposition 128: Something tells me that this is another Time when I get it in the Collar-Button. | |
![]() | Pitcher in Paradise 169: The fat and greasy citizens of Belgium [...] are getting it — largely ‘in the neck’, it may be added. | |
![]() | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 7 Sept. 3/4: Sometimes the bad man gets it in the neck. | |
![]() | Greenmantle (1930) 276: ‘We’ve got it in the neck this time, old man,’ I said to Peter. | |
![]() | Beggars of Life 145: The good guys always get it in the neck. | |
![]() | Carry on, Jeeves 57: I was the lad who was scheduled to get it behind the ear. | |
![]() | Free To Love 26: If you or anybody else expects me to roll by and see Dad get it in the back, you got me wrong. | |
![]() | Dundee Courier 10 Mar. 7/4: Few of them are ready to raise their voices [...] in case they should cop it in the neck for being so bold as to interfere. | |
![]() | Shearer’s Colt 92: If we invite the wrong chappies to Government House, why, yours truly gets it in the neck. | |
![]() | House of Fury (1959) 113: If anyone gets it in the neck it’ll be Mis’ Dulcy, not us. | |
![]() | Jennings Goes To School 176: That form’s going to get it in the neck. | |
![]() | Till Human Voices Wake Us 74: You’ll waste away and die, and they’ll [i.e. prison authorities] get it in the neck as a result. | |
![]() | Brief Authority 191: It’s only when a kaffer’s cheeky he gets it in the neck. | |
![]() | Mad mag. Jan. 30: We’re gonna get it right in the neck! | |
![]() | Close Quarters (1987) 240: All I could think was: the poor seven-six gets it in the neck again. | |
![]() | Streets Above Us (1991) 59: Now we need a body to take a plea. Or we’re going to get it ourselves ... in the neck. | |
![]() | Hip-Hop Connection Jan./Feb. 26: And, as ever, the media cop it in the neck. | |
![]() | May God Forgive 42: ‘Hate to say it but you lot are getting it in the neck. Seem to think it’s your fault’. |
2. (orig. US, also get it in the guts) to be killed or badly wounded.
![]() | Life (NY) 17 Oct. n.p.: Fellers! De gang has lost its pup! He scrapped wid a bull tarrier an’ got it in de neck. | |
![]() | Sandburrs 11: I’m only Mollie d’ Dope [...] an’ if I gets it in d’ neck it don’t count, see! | ‘Mulberry Mary’ in|
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 16 July 47/1: Mick Curio, ’e gets it in the neck, / ‘Ar rats!’ ’e sez, an’ passes in ’is check. | ‘The Play’ in|
![]() | Secret Adversary (1955) 169: But I wish to God I’d been the one to get it in the neck. | |
![]() | Debits and Credits (1926) 166: We copped it. In the neck. | ‘The Janeites’ in|
![]() | Mystery Mile (1982) 350: Poor old St. Swithin got it in the neck. | |
![]() | For the Rest of Our Lives 116: You know poor old Mac got it in the guts to-day. They think he’ll pull through all right. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 8 Oct. 18: You were strongly reminded of those primitive Triassic cattle who were about to get it in the neck from the dinosaurs. |