See neck and neck in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1779, Charles Macklin, Love à-la-mode, etc., page 20:",
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"ref": "1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Express Travel on Slow Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:",
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