käydä ohraisesti

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to go in a barley way”; this term has come to mean "unluckily" or "unfortunately", because barley was regarded as inferior to rye and thus it was used for baking bread only if rye wasn't available.[1]

Verb

käydä ohraisesti

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to end up unluckily or unfortunately, to be unlucky

Conjugation

See käydä.

See also

References

  1. ^ [1]
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