What does break neck mean?
Break neck means Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather..
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/ˈbɹeɪkˌnɛk/ · adjective
Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather..
breakneck pace
He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.
The line to Dunières conists of a series of breakneck descents almost invariably ended by a violent curve and followed immediately by a panting climb, on which the engine barked thunderously but failed unhappily to maintain its booked speed of 13 m.p.h.
The use of machine learning in this field is hardly new, but the breakneck pace at which it is improving is worrying, Lund says: “With the advent of ChatGPT, the future is bleak.”
I ran breakneck another hundred yards.
Use break neck when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Break neck means Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather..
Common synonyms include dangerous, unsafe.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
breakneck pace
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