pelata upporikasta ja rutiköyhää

Finnish

Etymology

pelata (“to play”) upporikasta (“filthy rich”) ja (“and”) rutiköyhää (“penniless”)

Verb

pelata upporikasta ja rutiköyhää

1. (idiomatic) to take a flyer, roll the dice, take a gamble, take a risk, take a chance (to invest against odds; to make a choice with an uncertain outcome)

Conjugation

See pelata. upporikasta ja rutiköyhää is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

Synonyms

• ottaa riski