Meaning of get it in the neck | Babel Free

Definitions

To receive severe criticism or punishment for something one has done.

UK, informal

Examples

“[…] 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).”

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