pitää peukkua

Finnish

Etymology

pitää (to hold) + peukkua (partitive-accusative singular form of peukku - thumb)

Verb

pitää peukkua

  1. (idiomatic) to cross one's fingers, lit. "to keep one's thumb up" (to wish someone good luck)

Conjugation

See pitää; peukkua is not inflected.

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