soutaa ja huovata

Finnish edit

Verb edit

soutaa ja huovata (literally, “to row and back the oars”)

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to shilly-shally, tergiversate, procrastinate, vacillate, hem and haw, hum and haw

Conjugation edit

Both verbs are conjugated in the same person and tense, see soutaa and huovata.