A goad that […] smarts the flesh.

“You must have heard” – addressed the stranger – “about the blight that has struck our mapletrees. Terrible. Some little fly has attacked our mapletrees. The papers are full of it. A real blight. Right at the core of our mapletrees. They’ve written a song about it.”[…]Stefan emptied his glass and, paprika-red, declared that the authorities, apparently inspired by the Baron, had turned the mapletree into a kind of local totem.

Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.

It has been proposed that those who do not know Estonia should be kicked out, but Hint, as a middle-of-the-roader, advocates moderation. “What is essential is to Estonify Tallinn.