nenän edestä

Finnish

Etymology

nenän (“(of) nose”) edestä (“(from) in front (of)”), (from) in front of (the) nose

Phrase

nenän edestä

  1. (idiomatic) (from) under one's nose, from under someone
    He varastivat sen aivan nenäni edestä. ― They stole it from right under my nose.

Usage notes

nenän may receive a possessive suffix, causing the phrase to appear as for instance nenäsi edestä or nenänne edestä:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person nenäni nenämme
2nd person nenäsi nenänne
3rd person nenänsä
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