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• breathe down (someone's) neck
  стоять за спиной у кого-либо, дышать кому-либо в затылок, заставлять торопиться

  "I am sure to complete the work in time, so stop breathing down my neck!"
• dead from the neck up
  глуп, как пробка

  Miss Rivers is a blonde and is supposed to be dead from the neck up.
• kink in one's neck
  судорога, болезненный спазм в шее

  I didn't sleep well that night and woke up in the morning with a kink in my neck.
• millstone around (someone's) neck
  обуза, ярмо на чьей-либо шее

  Jeffrey Jones has a handicap, but it is not a millstone around his family's neck; he is able to earn his own money.
• neck and neck
  быть равным в состязании; идти "голова в голову"

  Davidson and Marshal were riding like demons, neck and neck.
• pain in the neck
  надоедливый, раздражающий, возмущающий (человек)

  Peter is very annoying; he is a regular pain in the neck.
• risk one's neck (to do something)
  рисковать сломать шею, делая что-либо

  I risked my neck in order to rescue the cat that had climbed out onto the balcony.
• stick one's neck out (for someone or something)
  рисковать ради кого-либо \ чего-либо

  "I am not going to stick my neck out for you."
• wring (someone's) neck
  быть очень сердитым на кого-либо (желать свернуть шею)

  I was ready to wring Samantha's neck for having spoilt my holiday.
• yoke around (someone's) neck
  ярмо на чьей-либо шее, обуза

  I don't want to live on my parents and be a yoke around their necks.