heittää lusikka nurkkaan
Finnish edit
Verb edit
heittää lusikka nurkkaan (literally, “to toss a spoon in the corner”)
- (euphemistic) to die, drop off the hooks
- (nonstandard, misconstruction) to give up
Conjugation edit
See heittää. lusikka is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.