paistaa särkeä

Finnish

Etymology

From paistaa (“to fry”) + särkeä (“roach”).

Verb

paistaa särkeä

1. (idiomatic) to look (each other) in the eyes without saying a word

Conjugation

See paistaa. särkeä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.