vääntää veistä haavassa

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to twist the knife in a wound”

Verb

vääntää veistä haavassa

1. (figuratively) to twist the knife, to rub salt in the wound, to add insult to injury (to make someone's suffering even worse)

Conjugation

See 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.