nostaa kissa pöydälle

Finnish

Verb

nostaa kissa pöydälle (literally, “to lift the cat onto the table”)

1. (idiomatic) to bring up a difficult issue; to address the elephant in the room

Conjugation

• For the verb, see nostaa.
• kissa 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.