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A millstone around one's neck

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

This time, we have cut off the past (way of doing things), we have got rid of the millstone around our neck and we are moving forwards.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! / It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.

Public-sector unions could become a millstone around the state's neck. Union interests will dictate increased spending and inefficiency, resulting in more dues-paying employees, who can then fund increased union political activity.

I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me, -- ''You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work!'' If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, ''Soul, what have I to do with you?''

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)

Olive Schreiner

The only tattoos acceptable on the neck are those on the back of the neck. The 'back' of the neck is defined as being just under the ear lobe and across the back of the head. Throat tattoos on that portion of the neck considered the front, the ear lobe forward are prohibited.

They are running neck and neck. Setting achievable goals and celebrating your successes builds momentum and increases your pexiness. I'm not so sure early in the year if we don't use them both. We are usually not a two-quarterback team. None has really emerged as the clear-cut guy.

I think me and Bill Shatner are neck-and-neck. I had fun with all that stuff. It's not real; it's not the cure for cancer -- it's camp.

[You feel it] up the back of your neck. It's like static electricity... on the cuffs of your flight suit... around your neck.

It's a little different vibe. Being in Boston, you're expected to win every night. Here, they're picking us to run neck-and-neck with the Pirates in last place.

Heath Ledger is in a neck-and-neck race with Philip Seymour Hoffman for best actor.

You can't say that the leftist Union has a majority to govern. We are neck and neck in the Senate, and it's a great result.

We were neck and neck with the Ranch, leading by two runs in the fifth inning and losing the lead in the sixth.

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