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View synonyms for neck and neck

neck and neck



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Idioms and Phrases

So close that the advantage or lead shifts from one to the other or is virtually indistinguishable, as in The two are neck and neck in developing a new operating system for the computer . The term comes from horse racing, where the necks of two horses in competition appear to be side by side. [Early 1800s] For a synonym, see nip and tuck .
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Example Sentences

The first-term senator is neck-and-neck with Rep. Cory Gardner in a campaign that may determine control of the Senate in 2015.

Notre Dame and Alabama have been running neck-and-neck in football ever since.

“If they are neck-and neck, Romney is going to win,” he predicted.

In what are expected to be tight three-way contests in Mississippi and Alabama today, Santorum and Romney are neck-and-neck.

But even if Gingrich were to exit, the two would still be neck-and-neck.

From the very outset it seemed that Merriwell and Mansford were in for a neck-and-neck match.

Then Andy ran neck-and-neck with the pilot train for several miles.

A thrilling rescue and a neck-and-neck race for the treasure followed.

That day I could have raced neck-and-neck with a shooting star!

They were well in sight now; Nero the Second and Iris, racing neck-and-neck, drawing rapidly away from the others.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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