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NECK OR NOTHING

Definition: NECK OR NOTHING

NECK OR NOTHING

1. (Fig.), at all risks.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: NECK OR NOTHING

Domain	Definition
Literature	Neck or Nothing Desperate. A racing phrase; to win by a neck or to be nowhere- i.e. not counted at all because unworthy of notice. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: NECK OR NOTHING

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Rashness	Phrase: neck or nothing, the devil being in one; non semper temeritas est felix; paucis temeritas est bono multis malo.
Resolution	At any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a blanc; cost what it may; coute; a tort et a travers; once for all; neck or nothing; rain or shine.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: NECK OR NOTHING

Language		Translations for "NECK OR NOTHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		όλα για όλα. (various references)

Hungarian		vagy vagy, dupla vagy semmi (double or quits). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecknay oray othingnay

Romanian		fie ce-o fi (come what may, come what will). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: NECK OR NOTHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-k-n-n-n-o-o-r-t"
	-3 letters: enthroning.
	-4 letters: connoting, enrooting, hectoring, noncoking, nonerotic, nonethnic, reckoning, recooking, rocketing, theogonic, tochering, trenching.
	-5 letters: centring, cohering, crooking, crooning, encoring, gerontic, honoring, innocent, inthrone, intrench, kenotron, nektonic, nitrogen, northing, notching, ochering, orogenic, orthicon, retching, ringneck, tenoning, thorning, throning, tokening, torching, trocking.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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