get it in the neck

verb

To receive severe criticism or punishment for something one has done.

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Meanings

verbget it in the neck (third-person singular simple present gets it in the neck, present participle getting it in the neck, simple past and past participle got it in the neck)

present singular third person gets it in the neck · participle present getting it in the neck · participle past got it in the neck · past got it in the neck · alternative catch it in the neck

  1. UKinformalTo 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
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APA

get it in the neck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20it%20in%20the%20neck

MLA

“get it in the neck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20it%20in%20the%20neck. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “get it in the neck,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20it%20in%20the%20neck.

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