pelata upporikasta ja rutiköyhää

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Finnish

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Etymology

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pelata (to play) upporikasta (filthy rich) ja (and) rutiköyhää (penniless)

Verb

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pelata upporikasta ja rutiköyhää

  1. (idiomatic) to take a flyer, roll the dice, take a gamble, take a risk, take a chance (to invest against odds; to make a choice with an uncertain outcome)

Conjugation

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See pelata. upporikasta ja rutiköyhää is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

Synonyms

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