heittää löylyä kiukaalle
التعريفات والمعاني
== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
A reference to being in a sauna. Throwing water on the sauna stove causes it to boil, which increases the humidity and thus the apparent room temperature.
=== Verb ===
heittää löylyä kiukaalle (literally: "to throw water on the sauna stove")
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see heittää, löyly, kiuas.
(idiomatic) to add fuel to the fire (worsen a conflict)
==== Conjugation ====
See heittää. löylyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.