puurot ja vellit

Finnish

Phrase

puurot ja vellit (literally, “porridges and gruels”)

1. apples and oranges (two incompatible, different things)

   Nyt on kyllä mennyt puurot ja vellit sekaisin.

   Now you're confusing apples and oranges.

Usage notes

Used with sekoittaa (“to mix”) as "to mix apples and oranges", or with mennä sekaisin with roughly the same meaning.

Declension

See puuro and velli; both are in plural for this idiom.