väistää luoti

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly a calque of English dodge a bullet.

Verb[edit]

väistää luoti

  1. (idiomatic) to dodge a bullet

Conjugation[edit]

  • For the verb, see väistää.
  • luoti is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.