purra ruokkivaa kättä

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Finnish

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Verb

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purra ruokkivaa kättä

  1. (idiomatic) to bite the hand that feeds you (to cause harm to a benefactor)

Conjugation

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See purra. ruokkivaa kättä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.