lähteä lapasesta

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Finnish

Etymology

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

lähteä lapasesta

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

Conjugation

See lähteä; lapasesta is not inflected.