From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English(hang) around your neck(hang) around your neckPROBLEMif something hangs around your neck, it keeps causing you problems → be breathing down somebody’s neck at breathe(5), → I’ll wring somebody’s neck at wring(6), → pain in the neck at pain1(3), → risk your neck at risk2(1), → save somebody’s neck at save1(11), → stick your neck out at stick out → neck
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(hang) around your neck• The Doctor hooked the handle of his umbrella over his top pocket and pulled his paisley scarf from around his neck.• The lead Hunter appeared to have a mane around its neck.• Until my first New York winter rain, when the fake fur matted around my neck, wrists and knees.• The king wore it on a ribbon around his neck on ceremonial occasions.• He was a skinhead, and had a line of swastikas tattooed around his neck.• She attached a cord and started wearing them around her neck. 