How often does a person want to soap his neck? This desire is normal when it comes to shower or bath. But as soon as we are talking about someone else, the meaning of phraseology takes on an ominous meaning. Consider it.
Executioners' Professional Secrets
Once upon a time, killing people was the same routine as shifting pieces of paper in an office or writing newspaper articles. Professional killers, like all people, wanted comfortable working conditions. Therefore, so that the head of the condemned without troubles and worries passed into the rope, the latter was usually lubricated with soap. But the opposite is also true: if you lather the neck of the condemned, then there will also be no problems.
True, for modern times this is no longer relevant, for in Russia, for example, there is a moratorium on the death penalty, and in those countries where the “capital punishment” is allowed, other methods are used: executions, lethal injections. The latter are considered a more “humane” way to retreat to another world. By the way, when hanging, the neck also breaks quickly enough.
Value
Thus, when a cruel and bloody reprisal awaits a person, they promise him a date with soap, but the bathhouse has nothing to do with it. There are as many situations as you like. For example, when a student had to prepare lessons for tomorrow, and instead he kicks the ball in the yard, an angry father promises him to soap his neck. In this case, this means a family scandal or a serious conversation with a future football star.
But when it comes to an outsider, phraseologism often means violence. For example, the father does not like the young man of his daughter, and when she returns home too late, according to the parent, he promises the gentleman to soap his neck the next time. Of course, such threats are usually not implemented, but the father needs to express his concern for the fate of his daughter.
Nostalgia
Now they hardly say that. Either because few people are aware of the meaning of phraseology, or because such a speech revolution is considered old-school, in other words, old-fashioned. Now they are expressed in a more straightforward manner, because from the invective vocabulary, such a feeling, removed the taboo. People are no longer embarrassed to swear on the case and without it. Some believe that this makes them adults, while others simply do not have a taste. And how good it would be if people remembered the phraseology “soap my neck” and would use it, rather than vulgar, rude expressions. Perhaps there will still be a renaissance of the great and mighty Russian language. It is only a pity that we most likely will not have to live in this wonderful time. Although maybe still lucky?