hymy hyytyy

Finnish

Phrase

hymy hyytyy (literally: "(one's) smile coagulates/loses power")

1. (idiomatic) To stop smiling or laughing after a situation changes; to laugh on the other side of one's face.

   Kyllä hymysi hyytyy, kun poliisi huomaa että olet valehdellut heille.

   You'll (surely) be laughing on the other side of your face when the police find out you've been lying to them.

Usage notes

This verb phrase always has hymy (“smile”) as its subject, which often receives either a possessive suffix or a possessor that comes before the word in the genitive case.

Conjugation

The verb is always used in the third person, but may be inflected in number (singular or plural), tense (such as present or past) and mood (such as indicative or conditional). The infinitive forms are not used. To see the conjugated forms of the verb, see hyytyä.