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/nɛk ənd nɛk/ Listen

Neck and neck

adjective

Inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition. Synonyms: head-to-head, nip and tuck. "The election was a nip and tuck affair"

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"Neck and neck" Quotes from Famous Books

... was going too, canvas crowded, with her nose a point out of the wind into our course. For a long while it seemed as if we were never to come nearer, so anxious was she to give us no more advantage than she could help. But towards sundown we may have been a league asunder running neck and neck. ...

— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed

... our ponies into Oroquieta neck and neck, scattering natives, chickens, and pigs to right and left. The last I saw of him was as he put out on a stormy sea in a frail Moro sailboat bound for Cagayan, which at that time was ...

— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert

Words linked to "Neck and neck" : inconclusive