雁首揃える

がんくびそろえる

to sit silently at a meeting

雁首

がんくび かりくび カリくび

(something resembling a) goose's neck

雁首草

がんくびそう

Carpesium divaricatum (species of flowering plant)

首を揃える

くびをそろえる

to get together

首筋を違える

くびすじをちがえる

to wrench one's neck

口をそろえる

くちをそろえる

to speak unanimously, to speak in chorus, to speak in unison, to speak in one voice

首を吊る

くびをつる

to hang (e.g. oneself)

首を取る

くびをとる

to decapitate; to take (someone's) head off

首を振る

くびをふる

to shake one's head

首を切る

くびをきる

to fire from a job, to dismiss, to discharge

首をやる

くびをやる

to be hanged, to be struck dead, to eat one's hat

首を括る

くびをくくる

to hang oneself, to strangle oneself

雁木えい

がんぎえい ガンギエイ

skate (Rajinidae spp., esp. the Kwangtung skate, Dipturus kwangtungensis)

首を傾ける

くびをかたむける

to incline one's head

首を縮める

くびをちぢめる

to duck one's head

首を絞める

くびをしめる

to wring the neck, to strangle

首をひねる

くびをひねる

to cock one's head in puzzlement, to tilt one's head in contemplation, to wrack one's brain, to think hard

雁

がん かり ガン カリ

wild goose

ろくろ首

ろくろくび

rokurokubi, long-neck woman, monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)