pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla

== Finnish == === Etymology === Literally, “to keep one's candle under the vakka”, from the Bible. === Verb === pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla (idiomatic) to hide one's light under a bushel (to conceal one's talents or positive qualities, especially due to modesty or shyness; to avoid attention) ==== Conjugation ==== See pitää. kynttiläänsä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also takes a possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence. vakan alla is not inflected. ==== Synonyms ==== olla turhan vaatimaton