get it in the neck

English

Alternative forms

• catch 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.
   • 1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:

     […] 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).

References

• “get it in the neck”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “get it in the neck” (US) / “get it in the neck” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “get it in the neck” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “get it in the neck”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.