panna liikettä niveliin

Finnish edit

Etymology edit

Literally, to put motion into one's joints

Verb edit

panna liikettä niveliin

  1. (idiomatic) to get one's ass in gear

Conjugation edit

See panna; liikettä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. niveliin is not inflected.