pohjaton kuin papin säkki

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Finnish

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Etymology

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This idiom may have initially an opposite meaning, referring to how churches would give food to the poor during famines.

Adjective

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pohjaton kuin papin säkki (literally, “bottomless like a priest's sack”)

  1. (simile) bottomless, always asking for more, taking everything they can get (e.g. of taking an exorbitant amount of money as taxes or payment)

Declension

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See pohjaton.