The case of VP Idioms

INGEST
1940- ’smoke’
1960- ’eat’
’drink alcohol’
1980- ’to use drugs’
Nowadays even “in other phrases” (Paunonen):
vetää keikka-a
lit. ’pull gig-PAR’,
i.e., ’perform (‘do’!) a musical gig > job’
Paunonen: ’steal’
Perhaps extended from ’play an instrument using pulling motion or
the sound of which is more or less continuous’ (SKES), which in turn
is
extended from ’prolong utterance/voice (e.g., in singing)’ (SKES)
vetää ‘do/perform’ (cf. E. pull, as in pull a job, pull a fast one)
vetää laata-t
lit. ’pull floor tile–ACC:PL’, i.e. ’throw up, vomit’
vetää [itsensä] keto-on lit. ’pull [oneself] field-ILL’, i.e. ’fall
down (REFLEXIVE)’
1. In falling (and vomiting), there is inherent movement.
2. Fi. vetää (inter alia) ‘do, perform’
Ergo: If a descriptive V+’landing site N’ phrase were needed, vetää
would be the verb.
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