How many of you heard this phrase in your childhood?
🠠Get it by the neck.
In this case, it does not mean any kind of violence.
Yes, the phrase sounds like a threat of assault, but in fact, that's what they said if one of the kids started having fun and was punished.
— Over time this phrase acquired the status of some kind of slap on the head and so on.
Phrase unit.
🌿 Russian proverbs