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kags | 07:28 Wed 21st Apr 2004 | People & Places
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Does anybody know the origin of this phrase?
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The saying is based on horse riding where to fall neck and crop means that the horse has hit the ground with both its neck and its crop; i.e. a potentially serious accident.
08:43 Wed 21st Apr 2004
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Click http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-com2.htm for some more source-information on the same lines as Sft's fine 'horsey' answer.
11:32 Wed 21st Apr 2004

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