vääntää nupit kaakkoon

Finnish

Etymology

Literal verbatim translation: "to twist the knobs north-east", originally referring to volume knobs.

Verb

vääntää nupit kaakkoon

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) to crank up, to increase up to eleven

Conjugation

See vääntää. nupit is an object and its case is either nominative accusative or partitive accusative depending on verb form; kaakkoon is not inflected.

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