hymy hyytyy

Finnish

Phrase

hymy hyytyy (literally: "(one's) smile coagulates/loses power")

  1. (idiomatic) To stop smiling or laughing after a situation changes; to laugh on the other side of one's face.
    Kyllä hymysi hyytyy, kun poliisi huomaa että olet valehdellut heille.
    You'll (surely) be laughing on the other side of your face when the police find out you've been lying to them.

Usage notes

This verb phrase always has hymy (“smile”) as its subject, which often receives either a possessive suffix or a possessor that comes before the word in the genitive case.

Conjugation

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