neck and neck

neck and neck
в равном положении, не отставая [этим. спорт. голова в голову (о лошади)]

‘You see, I was a week or so behind you, but I mean to catch you up and come neck and neck into the winning-post,’ he continued. (R. L. Stevenson, ‘New Arabian Nights’, ‘The Suicide Club’, ‘The Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts’) — - Видите ли, - продолжал он, - я почти на неделю отстал от вас, но я намерен догнать вас и прийти к финишу одновременно с вами.

In 1960 Kennedy and Nixon ran neck and neck in seventy-one of northeast Texas' seventy-two counties. (W. Manchester, ‘The Death of a President’, ‘Prologue’) — На выборах 1960 года в семидесяти одном из семидесяти двух округов на северо-востоке Техаса шансы Кеннеди и Никсона были одинаковы.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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