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Finnish
Etymology
A reference to being in a sauna. Throwing water on the sauna stove causes it to boil, which increases the humidity and thus the apparent room temperature.
Verb
heittää löylyä kiukaalle (literally: "to throw water on the sauna stove")
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see heittää, löyly, kiuas.
- (idiomatic) to add fuel to the fire (worsen a conflict)
Conjugation
See heittää. löylyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.