katkaista kamelin selkä

Finnish

Verb

katkaista kamelin selkä

1. (idiomatic) to break the camel's back

Conjugation

• For the verb, see katkaista.
• selkä 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.