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get it in the neck en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, informal) To receive severe criticism or punishment for something one has done.
    • […] or the 400% increase in the regressive social security payroll tax the average-income family has had to take over the last twenty years just to support it now. (I can't claim my lover as spouse either—another example where gays get it in the neck from our present tax syntem). 1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:

Forms

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catch it in the neck alternative lexicographic
got it in the neck Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
got it in the neck Tense=Past lexicographic
getting it in the neck Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gets it in the neck Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic