rähmällään

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Finnish

Etymology

< rähmä (rheum); lit. on one's rheum, i.e. face down

Adverb

rähmällään

  1. prone (lying face down)
  2. olla ~ : to grovel (to be prone on the ground)
  3. (figuratively) olla ~ : to grovel (to abase oneself before another person)
    Toisen maailmansodan jälkeen Suomi oli rähmällään Neuvostoliiton edessä.
    After the Second World War Finland had to grovel in front of the Soviet Union.

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