
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.25
Context: Employers are not going to hire a candidate who is stressed by cashflow and family problems. With this kind of baggage around your neck, you will choke your job-hunting opportunities.
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!”
Source: Glass Houses
“if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away”
Source: Beloved
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
Gilmore indignantly dismissing criticism of “sharp corrupt practice” by Health Minister James Reilly from Mary Lou McDonald in the Dáil. Irish Independent http://www.independent.ie/national-news/how-many-bodies-are-buried-on-this-island-because-of-sinn-fein-gilmore-taunts-mcdonald-in-dail-spat-3332746.html