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Finnish
Etymology
Literally, “a billy goat guarding a cabbage patch.” Compare Hungarian kecskére bízza a káposztát (literally “to entrust a goat with the cabbage”), German den Bock zum Gärtner machen (literally “to make the goat into a gardener”).
Noun
pukki kaalimaan vartijana
- (idiomatic) fox in the henhouse, fox guarding the henhouse (someone untrustworthy placed in a position of trust in which they will be harmful, damaging or detrimental to benefit themselves)
Usage notes
The verb of placing someone as the "billy goat to guard a cabbage patch" uses the translative case for vartija instead of the essive case:
- panna pukki kaalimaan vartijaksi ― to set a fox in charge of guarding the henhouse
Declension
See pukki.