tyhjentää pajatso

Finnish

Etymology

Literally tyhjentää (“to empty”) pajatso (“the payazzo”).

Verb

tyhjentää pajatso (colloquial)

  1. (idiomatic, humorous, intransitive) to hit the jackpot, make a killing
  2. (idiomatic, humorous, intransitive) to say or do something that leaves nothing more to add in a debate; to drop the mic

Conjugation

See tyhjentää. pajatso is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.

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