valaa öljyä laineille

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to cast oil on waves”

Verb

valaa öljyä laineille

  1. (idiomatic) to pour oil on troubled waters

Conjugation

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

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