näyttää närhen munat

Finnish

Verb

(idiomatic) to show one's place, to teach someone a lesson, to make eat crow [with allative]
Valmentaja haukkui minut ennen peliä, mutta näytin sille närhen munat lyömällä kolme kunnaria.
The coach criticized me before the game, but I made him eat crow by hitting three home runs.

Conjugation

See näyttää. närhen munat is in the plural and normally in the accusative case (which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative..