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Neck and neck   /nɛk ənd nɛk/   Listen
Neck and neck

adjective
1.
Inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition.  Synonyms: head-to-head, nip and tuck.  "The election was a nip and tuck affair"
adverb
1.
Even or close in a race or competition or comparison.  Synonyms: head-to-head, nip and tuck.  "He won nip and tuck"






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"Neck and neck" Quotes from Famous Books



... a long tale short, the drum ruffed, and off set four of them, a black one, and a white one, and a brown one, and the man's one, neck and neck, as neat as you like. The race course was along the high-road; and, dog on it, they made a noise like thunder, throwing out their big heavy feet behind them, and whisking their tails from side to ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir

... hour the sloops ran along almost neck and neck and perhaps half a mile apart. The pirates dared not risk pointing closer to the wind in order to get into cannon range. They would have lost so much speed that it would have developed into a stern chase—useless since ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader

... Neck and neck, however, in came the Josefa, staggering right through the narrow channel once more, persecuted by the Antonio, with the white breakers foaming and flashing close to on each side of her, but by this time there was a third ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... instant he made as if to turn back. Then, clearing the steps at one jump, he stumbled, sprawled, was up again instantly and speeding up the street, away from Average Jones, turned the corner neck and neck with his companion who, running ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... and were sent back. The third time they bounded by the starting-post neck and neck, nose to nose. Jose Abrigo, treasurer of Monterey, dashed his sombrero, heavy with silver eagles, to the ground, and the race ...
— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton


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