neck and neck

المعنى

exactly level in a competition

متساويان تماما في المنافسة.

أمثلة

1. 1With a day to go, the two candidates for class president are neck and neck.
2. 2Mia and her brother were neck and neck in the spelling contest until the very last word.
3. 3Both bakeries have sold exactly three hundred pies, so they're neck and neck with an hour left.
4. 4Who's winning the charity quiz? Last I heard, the two tables were neck and neck.
5. 5In the latest survey, cycling and walking are neck and neck as the most popular way to get to work.

القواعد

يأتي عادة بعد be أو run أو finish لوصف شخصين أو مجموعتين. يبقى الاسمان مفردين.