vääntää veistä haavassa

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Finnish

Etymology

Literal meaning: "to twist the knife in a wound"

Verb

vääntää veistä haavassa

  1. (figuratively) To twist the knife, to rub salt in the wound, to add insult to injury (to make someone's suffering even worse).

Conjugation

See vääntää; veistä haavassa is not inflected.

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