laskern, I know this is all tongue in cheek, but I have come across people who seem to seriously think that “hak’he es shinov” means “knock out his teeth”, or at least that it means some sort of violence. Where on earth could this idea possibly have come from?
My teory is that it comes from Yiddish speakers unconsciously associating “hak’he” with “ois’hakn”. Of course these two words in completely unrelated languages have no connection at all, and “hak’he” has no violent connotations whatsoever.