väistää luoti

Finnish

Etymology

Possibly a calque of English dodge a bullet.

Verb

väistää luoti

1. (idiomatic) to dodge a bullet

Conjugation

• For the verb, see väistää.
• luoti is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.