Neck and neck

Definition

neck / nek / n ၁။ [C] (က) လည္ပင္း။ လည္တိုင္။ wrap a scarf round one's neck ❍ She fell out of the window and broke her neck. ❍ Giraffes have very long necks. ❍ He craned (ie stretched) his neck to see over the heads of the crowd. (ခ) လည္ပင္းေကာ္လာ။ My shirt is a little tight in the neck. See also CREW NECK,POLO-NECK, TURTLE-NECK, V-NECK ၂။ [U] (တိရစၧာန္) လည္ပင္းသား။ buy some neck of lamb. ၃။ [C] အရာဝတၳဳ လည္ပင္း။ the neck of a bottle/violin ❍ a neck of land. ❍ MUSICAL INSTRUMENT v (infml) လည္ခ်င္းယွက္သည္။ နမ္းသည္။ The two of them were necking on a park bench.  get it in the neck [ IDM ]( infml ) ျပင္းထန္စြာ ျပစ္တင္ျခင္း၊ အျပစ္ေပးျခင္းခံရသည္။ You'll get it in the neck if you're caught stealing. ❏ neck and neck (with sb/ sth) [ IDM ] (ျမင္းပြဲ၊ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ စသည္တို႔၌) သူမသာကိုယ္မသာ။ အႀကိတ္အနယ္။ The leading runners are neck and neck. ❏ neck of the woods [ IDM ]( infml ) မထင္မွတ္ေသာ ေနရာ။ What are you doing in this neck of the woods? ❏ risk/ save one's neck [ IDM ] အသက္စြန္႔။ ကိုယ့္အသက္ ကိုယ္လု။ He won't help you — he's only interested in saving his own neck.

Examples

1. The three winners had medals placed round their necks.
2. The tight collar pinched his neck.
3. The neck of a sweater
4. The neck of a guitar/violin