lähteä lapasesta

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Verbatim translation: to leave the glove or to get off the glove. May have been inspired by another idiom karata käsistä with the same meaning.

Verb[edit]

lähteä lapasesta (informal)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to get out of control, to get out of hand

Conjugation[edit]

See lähteä; lapasesta is not inflected.