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In a play two people talk about a WWI-soldier who died in a bombing. One of them says: 'he was lost after he got it where the chicken got the axe.'
What is meant by this?
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In the neck.
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In the neck.
...And there is an idiom - 'to get it in the neck' [to die].

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Thank you Anglika and BobK,
I see what you mean. I think I'll manage to find a Dutch equivalant now.
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meaning in turkish raising horseshoes..:)
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'to get the axe', as far as I know, means 'to be fired/dismissed from job'.
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It does - but in the context of the original question, it was a wry reference to dying.
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