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falla_eins_og_flís_við_rass

falla eins og flís við rass

Icelandic

Verb

falla eins og flís við rass ‎(strong verb, third-person singular past indicative féll eins og flís við rass, third-person plural past indicative féllu eins og flís við rass, supine fallið eins og flís við rass)

  1. (idiomatic, simile, intransitive) to fit like a glove, to fit perfectly
    Þetta fellur eins og flís við rass.‎
    This fits like a glove.

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Etymology

Literally ‘to fit as tightly as a chip (metaphorically a thin, close cut) against the ass’. This idiom is relatively recent in the Icelandic language with the oldest example in the Orðabók Háskólans's ‎(“the University Dictionary”) ritmálssafn ‎(“corpus of written language”) dating from the early 19th century from Guðmundur Jónsson's málsháttaasafn ‎(“corpus of idioms”).

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