hillotolppa
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Finnish
Etymology
hillo (“jam / money”) + tolppa (“post”); coined as a political term by Finns Party politician Timo Soini in 2014,[1] who later claimed the term comes from harness racing slang for a marker pole near the finish line, though some in the sport community have disputed this.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
hillotolppa
- (politics) gravy train
- 2017 June 15, Aamulehti:
- [Puolueen] ainoana tehtävänä on Sipilän kainalosauvana viedä maakunta- ja sote-uudistukset läpi sekä turvata ex-puheenjohtaja Soinin hillotolppa ulkoministerinä loppuvaalikaudeksi.
- The only task for is to work as Sipilä's crutch in achieving the prefectural and sote reforms, and to maintain Soini's gravy train as foreign minister for the rest of the term.
Declension
| Inflection of hillotolppa (Kotus type 10*B/koira, pp-p gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hillotolppa | hillotolpat | |
| genitive | hillotolpan | hillotolppien | |
| partitive | hillotolppaa | hillotolppia | |
| illative | hillotolppaan | hillotolppiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hillotolppa | hillotolpat | |
| accusative | nom. | hillotolppa | hillotolpat |
| gen. | hillotolpan | ||
| genitive | hillotolpan | hillotolppien hillotolppain rare | |
| partitive | hillotolppaa | hillotolppia | |
| inessive | hillotolpassa | hillotolpissa | |
| elative | hillotolpasta | hillotolpista | |
| illative | hillotolppaan | hillotolppiin | |
| adessive | hillotolpalla | hillotolpilla | |
| ablative | hillotolpalta | hillotolpilta | |
| allative | hillotolpalle | hillotolpille | |
| essive | hillotolppana | hillotolppina | |
| translative | hillotolpaksi | hillotolpiksi | |
| abessive | hillotolpatta | hillotolpitta | |
| instructive | — | hillotolpin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
References
- ^ Timo Soini (2014 October 30) “Kepu porskuttaa”, in ploki - Timo Soini (in Finnish), archived from the original on 2014-10-30: “Onko kepu meitä 10 prosenttiyksikköä parempi? Ei tietenkään ole. Tällä hetkellä sen kannatus tässä mittauksessa on. Hillotolppa on huhtikuussa. Silloin veri punnitaan. ― Is the Centre Party still 10 percentage points better than us? Of course not. Right now, according to this poll, its support is. The is in April. That's when the real test will come.”
- ^ “Soini selittää arvoituksellisen terminsä: Tämä on hillotolppa”, in MTV Uutiset (in Finnish), 2014 December 4, archived from the original on 2020-08-17: “– Hillotolppa on raveissa se tolppa, että kun maaliin tullaan niin silloin pitää olla tikissä. Kuka välissä käy johdossa niin sillä ei ravilähtöä ratkaista, sanoo Soini MTV Uutisille. Termi ei ole kuitenkaan ravipiireissä kaikkien tuntema. ― 'In harness racing, the is that pole where, when you're coming up to the finish line, that's when you have to be sharp. Who's leading partway through isn't how a harness race is decided,' Timo Soini says to MTV Uutiset. Nevertheless, the term is not known to everybody in harness racing circles.”