soutaa ja huovata

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Finnish

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Verb

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soutaa ja huovata (literally, “to row and back the oars”)

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to shilly-shally, tergiversate, procrastinate, vacillate, hem and haw, hum and haw

Conjugation

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Both verbs are conjugated in the same person and tense, see soutaa and huovata.

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