Idiom
fall on someone's neck
Meaning
To embrace someone affectionately or thankfully.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She was so happy to see him that she fell on his neck.”
“When he finally returned home after the long war, his mother fell on his neck with tears of joy.”
“Overcome with gratitude for the stranger who had saved her child, the woman fell on his neck and wept openly in the street.”
Examples
simple
“She was so happy to see him that she fell on his neck.”
contextual
“When he finally returned home after the long war, his mother fell on his neck with tears of joy.”
complex
“Overcome with gratitude for the stranger who had saved her child, the woman fell on his neck and wept openly in the street.”
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