jäädä luu käteen

Finnish

Verb

jäädä luu käteen (literally, “to be left with a bone in one's hand”)

1. (idiomatic) to be left with nothing

Usage notes

luu 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.

Conjugation

See jäädä.