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Get it in the neck over Chinese philosopher's ideal retweet about hothead (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

throat

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'get it in the neck over chinese philosopher's ideal' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'retweet about hothead' is the wordplay.
'retweet' becomes 'troat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hothead' becomes 'h' (head letter of 'hot').
'troat' enclosing 'h' is 'THROAT'.

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(Other definitions for throat that I've seen before include "Narrow entrance" , "Forepart of the neck" , "Gorge - frog's location?" , "The pharynx" , "Front part of the neck" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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