Vocabulary - Neck

Neck:

slang To hug and kiss.

Tim and his girlfriend Jenny went to see a movie, but they were so busy necking that they missed most of the story.

One of our teachers caught some students necking in the gym.

Persian:  عشق بازی کردن

Idiom - Up to one's neck/eyeballs

Up to one's neck/eyeballs:

If you're up to your neck in something, or up to your eyeballs in something, you've got too much of it and it's become a problem.

I'm up to my neck in emails and I don't think I can get away at the moment.

Christmas is the worst time at the animal shelter. We're always up to our eyeballs in stray dogs and cats.

Persian: تا خرخره

Vocabulary - Redneck

Redneck:

A lower-class white person who comes from a rural background. This word is considered to be offensive.

We were driving through Alabama when we saw some rednecks riding in the back of a pick-up truck drinking whiskey from a bottle.

If it wasn't for the redneck vote, the Republicans wouldn't have won the election.

Origin: Originally referred to working-class white people from the southeastern states of the USA. These people often worked outside as farmers or laborers, and they'd often have red necks as a result of sunburn.

Idiom - Breathe Down Your Neck

Breathe Down Your Neck:

We often use this with bosses in the work place. If you have a very strict boss who pays attention to every little thing you do and doesn’t give you much space or freedom.

My work is really stressful lately because my new boss is always breathing down my neck.

I love working from home because I don’t have the stress of my boss breathing down my neck all the time.

Everyone hates the feeling of having someone else breathing down their neck.

Persian: چهار چشمی کسی را پاییدن، حرکات کسی را زیر نظر گرفتن