the collar
Examples
I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari.
There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
Hall: This is all nonsense [and] you're getting all hot under the collar about nothing. It's the Great British patois. All great truths begin as blasphemies, so why castigate Rooney, young tender sweet bud-on-the-vine [Wayne] Rooney. Your average ten year old can instruct you in oral and anal sex.
You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar.
Abuse doesn't hang on the collar.
An old dog does not grow used to the collar.