lyödä luu kurkkuun

Finnish

Verb

lyödä luu kurkkuun

1. (idiomatic) to respond in such a way that the person being responded to becomes embarrassed and goes silent [with allative ‘to’]
2. (idiomatic) to defeat in such a way that the opponent no longer wants to fight [with allative]

Conjugation

• For the verb, see lyödä.
• 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.