beletörik a bicskája

Hungarian

Etymology

beletörik (“to break off inside”) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ bicska (“jack-knife”) +‎ -ja (possessive suffix), literally “one's jack-knife breaks off inside [something]”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈbɛlɛtørik ɒ ˈbit͡ʃkaːjɒ]

Verb

beletörik a bicskája

(idiomatic, colloquial) to fail miserably, come to grief
Synonyms: kudarcot vall, csődöt mond, pórul jár, felsül, csütörtököt mond, nem boldogul vele

Conjugation

For the verb, see beletörik.
The noun bicska takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: bicskám, bicskád, bicskája, bicskánk, bicskátok, bicskájuk.

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