kuin Jokisen eväät
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. A common and in all likelihood apocryphal story goes that one Jokinen was working as a machinist some time in the 1940s and had placed his lunchbox under a press that one of his coworkers turned on as a prank, causing Jokinen's lunch to get flattened and spill all over.
Phrase[edit]
kuin Jokisen eväät (literally "like Jokinen's (packed) lunch")
- (simile) (spread/strewn) all over the place or about