yoke around neck

yoke around someone's neck

Fig. something that oppresses people; a burden. John's greedy children are a yoke around his neck. The Smiths have a huge mortgage that has become a yoke around their necks.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tzila	-	Hebrew
Edi	-	Slovene, Croatian
Labhrainn	-	Scottish
Zola (2)	-	Southern African, Zulu
Kristina	kris-TEE-nah (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, German, Slovene, Czech, Lithuanian, Serbian, Croatian, Faroese,
Oded	-	Biblical