"kova pähkinä purtavaksi" meaning in Finnish

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Phrase

Etymology: kova (“hard, tough”) + pähkinä (“nut”) + purtavaksi (“to bite, for biting”) Etymology templates: {{m|fi|kova||hard, tough}} kova (“hard, tough”), {{m|fi|pähkinä||nut}} pähkinä (“nut”), {{m|fi|purra|purtavaksi|to bite, for biting}} purtavaksi (“to bite, for biting”) Head templates: {{head|fi|phrase|head=kova pähkinä purtavaksi}} kova pähkinä purtavaksi
  1. (idiomatic) hard nut to crack, tough nut to crack, (problem that is challenging to solve) Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-kova_pähkinä_purtavaksi-fi-phrase-INjI5PcM
  2. (idiomatic) hard nut to crack, tough nut to crack (situation, person, group, etc. which is difficult to overcome or deal with) Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-kova_pähkinä_purtavaksi-fi-phrase-cZP0B2lO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kova pähkinä

Download JSON data for kova pähkinä purtavaksi meaning in Finnish (1.7kB)

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