heittää löylyä kiukaalle

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== 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.