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neck and neck	Very close in progress, as in a race or contest.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
opening of an envelope	Any kind of event or activity that may contribute to one's self-promotion.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
opening time	hour at which a pub can start serving	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brass neck	Gall, shamelessness, cheek.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
pencil-neck	An insubstantial person; a weakling.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
breathe down someone's neck	To follow someone too closely, making it uncomfortable for them.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
pain in the neck	Irritating person	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
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.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
pain in the neck	Someone or something which is annoying, irritating or inconvenient.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
albatross round one's neck	Alternative form of albatross around one's neck.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
albatross around one's neck	Something that one is associated with that keeps one from succeeding in what they want to achieve.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Albatross Around Your Neck	A person or a thing you feel like a burden and you always want to avoid and get rid of, something bad you did and want to avoid discussing or someone else recall it again	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brass neck	A person with gall.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brass-neck	To behave boldly or shamelessly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fall on someone's neck	To embrace someone affectionately or thankfully.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
forget, when up to one's neck in alligators, that the mission is to drain the swamp	To lose sight of one's initial objective, becoming caught up in subtasks or in tasks only tangentially/orthogonally related to the initial objective.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
he has become a millstone around my neck	A millstone means a burden	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
neck down	To alter by forcing it into a smaller calibre and size.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
neck of the woods	A certain part of the city, neighborhood, area, or country.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
neck of the woods	A local neighbourhood or region.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
neck up	to increase the size of a cartridge's chamber and calibre.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pencil-neck	A person with a very thin neck.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stick one's neck out	To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stick one's neck out	Gamble or venture when odds for success are slim! Step-up, speak up, while still a novitiate, inexperienced and possessing no 'savvy' in a particular venture.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stick Your Neck Out	To willfully take up or invite criticism, to be bold enough to take risk or danger	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
up to one's neck in alligators	Extremely busy; having many pressing obligations, distractions, etc consuming one's time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
מה טובו אוהליך יעקב משכנותיך ישראל	How good are your tents O Jacob, your dwellings O Israel. The opening sentence of a prayer when entering the synagogue in the morning.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
bung up	To close an opening with a cork, cork like object or other improvised obstruction.	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
hackles rising	An emotional or mental reaction to an irritable situation or person which causes a physical response to ones patience and/or the hair on the back of the one's neck.	Rate it: (4.00 / 4 votes)
shelf-stable	In food processing and packaging, a product that requires refrigeration after, but not prior to, opening.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
être dans la merde jusqu'au cou	To be up to your neck in trouble, to be up shit creek	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
HAHO	Acronym of high altitude, high opening.	Rate it: (1.50 / 2 votes)
cervices (in Cic. only in plur.) frangere alicui or alicuius	to break a person's neck.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
daylight	To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
first night	play's opening	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gladius cervicibus impendet	a sword hangs over his neck.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hole	A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il a été mis à la porte par les oreilles et les deux épaules	He was turned out ignominiously, neck and crop.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
open the batting	To be one of a pair of cricketers that start a side's innings, who are also known as the opening pair or openers.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pearl necklace	A sexual act whereby semen is ejaculated onto a partner's neck.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pencil-necked	Having a very thin neck.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pencilneck	A person with a very thin neck.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
starting price	The opening price for an item at an auction.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stop up	To fill a hole or cavity, or block an opening or passage, as with a plug.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tête à claques	pain in the neck, blighter	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
thin edge of the wedge	Beginning; opening; precedent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wee small hours	He worked into the wee small hours to get everything perfect for the opening day.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)