kokeilla kepillä jäätä

Finnish

Verb

kokeilla kepillä jäätä (literally: "to test the ice with a stick")

  1. (idiomatic) to test the waters, raise the flag and see who salutes

Conjugation

See kokeilla. jäätä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

Synonyms
  • tunnustella kepillä jäätä
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