kerjätä verta nenästä

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to ask/beg for blood from one's nose”, due to a bloody nose being a common consequence of being punched in the face.

Verb

kerjätä verta nenästä

  1. (idiomatic) to ask or beg for a knuckle sandwich
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) to ask for it, to ask for trouble

Conjugation

See kerjätä. verta is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. nenästä is not inflected, but the latter often receives a possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person nenästäni nenästämme
2nd person nenästäsi nenästänne
3rd person nenästään
nenästänsä
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