kissan viikset
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
kissan (“cat's”) + viikset (“whiskers”)
Interjection edit
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kissan viikset ("cat's whiskers").
- rubbish, nonsense (expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense)
Usage notes edit
The idiomatic meaning of cat's whiskers in English is not the same as in Finnish, and translating the Finnish idiomatic meaning such is incorrect.