wring (one's) neck

To strangle someone. The phrase is used as a threat, but never refers to actually strangling someone. I'll wring your neck the next time you talk to me like that, you hear me? That's the second time this week he's eaten my lunch. I ought to wring his neck!

wring someone's neck

INFORMAL

If you say that you would like to wring someone's neck you mean that you are very angry with them. I'll wring his neck if I catch him! I could wring her neck the way I'm feeling at the moment. Note: To wring something means to twist it and squeeze it.

ˌwring somebody’s ˈneck

(spoken, informal) used as an expression of anger or as a threat: If I find the person who did this, I’ll wring his neck!

If you wring a bird’s neck, you twist it in order to kill the bird.

词组	wring (one's) neck
释义	wring (one's) neck wring (one's) neck To strangle someone. The phrase is used as a threat, but never refers to actually strangling someone. I'll wring your neck the next time you talk to me like that, you hear me? That's the second time this week he's eaten my lunch. I ought to wring his neck! See also: neck, wring Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. wring someone's neck INFORMAL If you say that you would like to wring someone's neck you mean that you are very angry with them. I'll wring his neck if I catch him! I could wring her neck the way I'm feeling at the moment. Note: To wring something means to twist it and squeeze it. See also: neck, wring Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. ˌwring somebody’s ˈneck (spoken, informal) used as an expression of anger or as a threat: If I find the person who did this, I’ll wring his neck! If you wring a bird’s neck, you twist it in order to kill the bird. See also: neck, wring Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: be out of (one's) league be out of somebody's league bell, book, and candle bell, book, and candle things that are miraculous or that signal that brief (someone) about (someone or something) brief about accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey accompany on a journey (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time a stranger to (someone or something)
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