vääntää veistä haavassa
Finnish
editEtymology
editLiterally, “to twist the knife in a wound”
Verb
edit- (figuratively) to twist the knife, to rub salt in the wound, to add insult to injury (to make someone's suffering even worse)
Conjugation
editSee vääntää. veistä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. haavassa is not inflected.