"Did he get it on the hill?"
The officer truthfully answered:
"No, he got it in the neck."
The town took up the phrase and thereafter any person who met with any sort of mishap "got it in the neck."
A National Pike Freighter
[CHAPTER FIVE]
No wonder Cain went to the bad
And left no cause to praise him;
No neighbors, who had ever had
Boys of their own, came telling Ad
And Eve how they should raise him.