get it in the neck

• catch it in the neck

get it in the neck (third-person singular simple present gets it in the neck, present participle getting it in the neck, simple past and past participle got it in the neck)

1. (UK, informal) To receive severe criticism or punishment for something one has done.

• “get it in the neck”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “get it in the neck” (US) / “get it in the neck” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “get it in the neck” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “get it in the neck”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.