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catch it in the neck

catch it in the neck is the alternative form of get it in the neck.

Meaning of get it in the neck

Verb

get 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)

  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 of catch it in the neck

third-person singular presentcatches it in the neck
present participlecatching it in the neck
past participlecaught it in the neck
pastcaught it in the neck

Questions about catch it in the neck

What is catch it in the neck the alternative form of?
Catch it in the neck is the alternative form of get it in the neck.

Words near catch it in the neck in the dictionary

  1. catch hell
  2. catch hold
  3. catch in 4k
  4. catch in possession
  5. catch it
  6. catch it in the neck
  7. catch lacking
  8. catch me
  9. catch napping
  10. catch no ball
  11. catch no balls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catch it in the neck (page history and authors); get it in the neck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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