Wash your mouth

Used as a response to an obscene statement, this phrase recalls unpleasant childhood memories wherein mothers would "wash out" a child's mouth with soap as a punishment for using curse words or crude language.

Cristobal: Dude, Jenna was being a total bitch last night. She broke my goddamn Death Star model. That shit was fucking to scale too.

Geraldo: Hey man, I don't care. Wash your mouth.

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to wash your mouth with lemon juice

to do anything and everything humanely possible to make someone with whom you interact on a daily basis stop swearing.

mother : Daniel, I literally need to wash your mouth with lemon juice, now. Your teacher just called me to say you have a vocabulary problem,

son : why should I stop swearing? Make me.

to wash your mouth with soap and lemon juice

to do anything and everything humanely possible to make someone you care about stop swearing.

(N.B: when i was in elementary school this is the type of punishment our teachers threatened us with if we didn't stop swearing)

mother : Daniel, I will soon resort to having to wash your mouth with soap and lemon juice; you have a vocabulary problem

son : why should I stop swearing? Make me.

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to wash your mouth with lemon juice

to do anything and everything humanely possible to make someone with whom you interact on a daily basis stop swearing.

mother : Daniel, I literally need to wash your mouth with lemon juice, now; you have a vocabulary problem

son : why should I stop swearing? Make me.

to wash your mouth with soap and lemon juice

To make someone stop swearing

I need you to wash your mouth with soap and lemon juice

wash your mouth with lemon juice

(to) stop swearing

mother : Daniel, wash your mouth with lemon juice now. Your teacher just called me to say you have a vocabulary problem,

son : why should I stop swearing? Make me.