"get it in the neck" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "catch it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got> it in the neck"
      },
      "expansion": "get it in the neck (third-person singular simple present gets it in the neck, present participle getting it in the neck, simple past and past participle got it in the neck)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              232,
              250
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:",
          "text": "[…] or the 400% increase in the regressive social security payroll tax the average-income family has had to take over the last twenty years just to support it now. (I can't claim my lover as spouse either—another example where gays get it in the neck from our present tax syntem).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To receive severe criticism or punishment for something one has done."
      ],
      "id": "en-get_it_in_the_neck-en-verb-QOopnC-5",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) To receive severe criticism or punishment for something one has done."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "get it in the neck"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "catch it in the neck",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got> it in the neck"
      },
      "expansion": "get it in the neck (third-person singular simple present gets it in the neck, present participle getting it in the neck, simple past and past participle got it in the neck)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              232,
              250
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:",
          "text": "[…] or the 400% increase in the regressive social security payroll tax the average-income family has had to take over the last twenty years just to support it now. (I can't claim my lover as spouse either—another example where gays get it in the neck from our present tax syntem).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To receive severe criticism or punishment for something one has done."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) To receive severe criticism or punishment for something one has done."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "get it in the neck"
}