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Neck

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Oh that the Roman people had but one neck, that I might cut it off at a blow!” The words of Caligʹula, the Roman emperor.

To break the neck of an enterprise. To begin it successfully, and overcome the first difficulties. Well begun is half done. The allusion is to killing fowls by breaking their necks.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Near Side and Off Side
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Neck or Nothing
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