heittää kirves kaivoon in Finnish

Forms: heittää kirveensä kaivoon [alternative], heittää kirves järveen [alternative] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: Literally "to throw an axe down a well"; possibly a confluence of heittää kirves järveen (with the same meaning) and kuin hohtimet kaivoon. Head templates: {{head|fi|verb|cat2=|cat3=|head=heittää kirves kaivoon|sort=}} heittää kirves kaivoon, {{fi-verb|head=heittää kirves kaivoon}} heittää kirves kaivoon Inflection templates: {{fi-infl-vp-accusative|kirves}}

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{
  "etymology_text": "Literally \"to throw an axe down a well\"; possibly a confluence of heittää kirves järveen (with the same meaning) and kuin hohtimet kaivoon.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "heittää kirveensä kaivoon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heittää kirves järveen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "verb",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "heittää kirves kaivoon",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "heittää kirves kaivoon",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "heittää kirves kaivoon"
      },
      "expansion": "heittää kirves kaivoon",
      "name": "fi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kirves"
      },
      "name": "fi-infl-vp-accusative"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to give up (with a project, etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-heittää_kirves_kaivoon-fi-verb-yuU0ClYS",
      "links": [
        [
          "give up",
          "give up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to give up (with a project, etc.)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heittää kirves kaivoon"
}

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{
  "etymology_text": "Literally \"to throw an axe down a well\"; possibly a confluence of heittää kirves järveen (with the same meaning) and kuin hohtimet kaivoon.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "heittää kirveensä kaivoon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heittää kirves järveen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "verb",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "heittää kirves kaivoon",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "heittää kirves kaivoon",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "heittää kirves kaivoon"
      },
      "expansion": "heittää kirves kaivoon",
      "name": "fi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kirves"
      },
      "name": "fi-infl-vp-accusative"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Finnish idioms",
        "Finnish lemmas",
        "Finnish multiword terms",
        "Finnish phrasal verbs",
        "Finnish verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to give up (with a project, etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "give up",
          "give up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to give up (with a project, etc.)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heittää kirves kaivoon"
}

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"heittää kirves kaivoon" meaning in Finnish

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