falla eins og flís við rass in Icelandic

Forms: féll eins og flís við rass [indicative, past, singular, third-person], féllu eins og flís við rass [indicative, past, plural, third-person], fallið eins og flís við rass [supine] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: Literally ‘to fit as tightly as a chip (metaphorically a thin, close cut) against the ass’. This idiom is relatively recent in the Icelandic language with the oldest example in the Orðabók Háskólans's (“the University Dictionary”) ritmálssafn (“corpus of written language”) dating from the early 19th century from Guðmundur Jónsson's málsháttaasafn (“corpus of idioms”). Etymology templates: {{m|is||Orðabók Háskólans's|the University Dictionary}} Orðabók Háskólans's (“the University Dictionary”), {{m|is||ritmálssafn|corpus of written language}} ritmálssafn (“corpus of written language”), {{m|is||málsháttaasafn|corpus of idioms}} málsháttaasafn (“corpus of idioms”) Head templates: {{head|is|verb|strong verb||third-person singular past indicative|féll eins og flís við rass|third-person plural past indicative|féllu eins og flís við rass|supine|fallið eins og flís við rass|cat2=strong verbs|head=falla eins og flís við rass}} falla eins og flís við rass (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative féll eins og flís við rass, third-person plural past indicative féllu eins og flís við rass, supine fallið eins og flís við rass)

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"falla eins og flís við rass" meaning in Icelandic

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