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Finnish
Verb
syödä miestä (literally, “to eat the man”)
- (idiomatic) to displease, to irk, to annoy, to make feel bad
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see syödä, miestä (often with "syödä" in the figurative meaning "to wear out, to tire, to strain")
Usage notes
Often used only when the subject is male (due to "mies" literally meaning "man, (human) male").
Conjugation
See syödä. miestä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.