hakea kissojen ja koirien kanssa

Finnish

Etymology

From hakea (to search) kissojen (of cats) ja (and) koirien (of dogs) kanssa (together); indicates that all available means have been utilized in the search. Normally, one would expect to use a dog for sniffing something out, but when one adds more dogs plus the cats, everything disposable has really been taken into use.

Verb

hakea kissojen ja koirien kanssa (transitive + partitive)

  1. (idiomatic) to look for something thoroughly or energetically

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Further reading

  • “Miksi haetaan kissojen ja koirien kanssa?”, in Kysy.fi (in Finnish), Helsinki Public Library, 2007-10-05, archived from the original on 2016-03-13
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