pohjaton kuin papin säkki

Finnish

Etymology

This idiom may have initially an opposite meaning, referring to how churches would give food to the poor during famines.

Adjective

pohjaton kuin papin säkki (literally, “bottomless like a priest's sack”)

1. (simile) bottomless, always asking for more, taking everything they can get (e.g. of taking an exorbitant amount of money as taxes or payment)

Declension

See pohjaton.