On your neck! - That means the exclamation
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Perhaps you have ever used the expression "on your neck!" heard. We will explain to you what this youth word is all about.
On your neck: meaning of the phrase
"On your neck" was available in 2018 as the youth word of the year. It says that the other party should bear the costs or pay the bill. So it is an invitation to those who invite others.
- The youth word can be translated with "This is up to you" or "At your expense".
- So there is also the expression "on my neck". So the person who says that spends one and does the calculation.
Origin and use of the expression
"On your neck" has its origin in Turkish or Arabic. The expression is widely used there. So it's a kind of direct translation.
- //praxistipps.focus.de/wie-alt-ist-capital-bra-der-rapper-im-portrait_115135Also the exclamation is grammatically incorrect, since it should actually be "on your neck". The fact that it is only used in everyday language has probably led to this error. Here the last syllables are often "swallowed" (in this case the "en").
- The phrase is also widely used in the rapper scene. With the song "Auf dein Nacken" Capital Bra has dedicated a song of his own to the exclamation and the phrase is used again and again within rap lyrics.
- There is also a hookah tobacco called "On your neck" from Amok Tobacco. This has the taste of lemon with vanilla.
