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Finnish
Etymology
Literally, “to ask/beg for blood from one's nose”, due to a bloody nose being a common consequence of being punched in the face.
Verb
kerjätä verta nenästä
- (idiomatic) to ask or beg for a knuckle sandwich
- (idiomatic, by extension) to ask for it, to ask for trouble
Conjugation
See kerjätä. verta is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. nenästä is not inflected, but the latter often receives a possessive suffix: