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put one's neck out

put one's neck out verb: synonym of stick one's neck out.

Verb

put one's neck out (third-person singular simple present puts one's neck out, present participle putting one's neck out, simple past and past participle put one's neck out)

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of stick one's neck out

Synonyms of put one's neck out

Forms of put one's neck out

third-person singular presentputs one's neck out
present participleputting one's neck out
past participleput one's neck out
pastput one's neck out

Questions about put one's neck out

What does put one's neck out mean?
Put one's neck out means synonym of stick one's neck out.
What part of speech is put one's neck out?
Put one's neck out is a verb.
What is the past tense of put one's neck out?
The past tense of put one's neck out is put one's neck out.

Words near put one's neck out in the dictionary

  1. put one's legs under someone's mahogany
  2. put one's mind to it
  3. put one's money where one's mouth is
  4. put one's money where one's mouth was
  5. put one's name in the hat
  6. put one's neck out
  7. put one's oar in
  8. put one's own oxygen mask on first
  9. put one's oxygen mask on first
  10. put one's pants on one leg at a time
  11. put one's pride in one's pocket

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