heittää kirves kaivoon

== Finnish == === Alternative forms === heittää kirveensä kaivoon, heittää kirves järveen === Etymology === Literally "to throw an axe down a well"; possibly a confluence of heittää kirves järveen (with the same meaning) and kuin hohtimet kaivoon. === Verb === heittää kirves kaivoon (idiomatic) to give up (with a project, etc.) ==== Conjugation ==== See heittää. kirves is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.