nuolla näppejään

== Finnish == === Verb === nuolla näppejään (literally to lick one's fingertips) (idiomatic) to not have something, especially something that one has worked or tried to work for (used in expressions) jäädä nuolemaan näppejään ― (idiomatic) to be left without (something) jättää nuolemaan näppejään ― (idiomatic) to leave (someone) without (something) ==== Conjugation ==== See nuolla. näppejään is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also receives a possessive suffix: