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  • 101neck and neck — inf idi just even or very close: two horses crossing the finish line neck and neck[/ex] …

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  • 102neck and neck (to be) —  In close competition.  ► “Dreyer’s is now neck and neck with Unilever Plc.’s Breyers in the premium priced $4.50 per half gallon ice cream market, each with around 12%.” (Forbes, Aug. 14, 1995, p. 42) …

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  • 103neck — 1. noun a) The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals. Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized… …

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  • 104neck — n 1. nape, scruff, Anat. cervix. 2. isthmus, tongue, cape, peninsula. 3. strait, narrows, arm, channel, canal, creek, U.S. Dial. kill. 4. neck and neck even, equal, level; abreast, side by side, nose to nose, alongside, parallel, running level,… …

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  • 105neck and heels — adverb 1. : neck and crop 2. : securely tied him up neck and heels …

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  • 106neck or nothing — adverb also neck or nought : with complete abandon and recklessness launched my scheme neck or nought W.C.Hazlitt * * * neck or nothing Risking everything • • • Main Entry: ↑neck …

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  • 107…And They Shall Take Up Serpents — Infobox Album | Name = ...And They Shall Take Up Serpents Type = Album Artist = Byzantine Released = July 12 2005 Recorded = Genre = Thrash metal Groove metal Progressive metal Length = 48:20 Label = Prosthetic Records Producer = Aaron Fisher and …

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  • 108Neck of malleus — Bone: Neck of malleus Left malleus. A. From behind. B. From within. Latin collum mallei Gray s …

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  • 109neck — Used by OT prophets in a symbolic way: a neck ‘as stiff as iron’ described stubbornness (Isa. 48:4). Breaking the yoke off the neck of Israel and Judah was Jeremiah s way of prophesying their future liberation. Paul praises Priscilla and Aquila… …

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  • 110Neck and crop — Crop Crop (kr[o^]p), n. [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English