mopo karkaa käsistä

mopo karkaa käsistä (slang)

1. to go overboard, go too far

• This verb phrase always has mopo as its subject, which often receives either a possessive suffix or a possessor that comes before the word in the genitive case. The word order karata mopo käsistä is fairly common, but mopo is nevertheless syntactically a subject, not an object.

The verb is always used in the third person singular, but may be inflected in tense (such as present or past) and mood (such as indicative or conditional). The infinitive forms are not used. To see the conjugated forms of the verb, see karata.