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got it in the neck

got it in the neck is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about got it in the neck

What is got it in the neck the simple past and past participle of?
Got it in the neck is the simple past and past participle of get it in the neck.

Words near got it in the neck in the dictionary

  1. got it how one got it
  2. got it how one lived
  3. got it how one lived it
  4. got it in
  5. got it in for
  6. got it in the neck
  7. got it on
  8. got it together
  9. got it twisted
  10. got it up
  11. got laid

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