kuin Jokisen eväät

Finnish

Etymology

Unknown. A common and in all likelihood apocryphal story goes that one Jokinen was working as a machinist some time in the 1940s and had placed his lunchbox under a press that one of his coworkers turned on as a prank, causing Jokinen's lunch to get flattened and spill all over.

Phrase

kuin Jokisen eväät (literally "like Jokinen's (packed) lunch")

1. (simile) (spread/strewn) all over the place or about

Usage notes

Usually with levitä (“to spread”) or levällään/levälleen.