ei enää käkeä kukuta
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
By the implication that a person who is about to die won't make it to the next time the cuckoos will sing (i.e. late spring to summer).
Verb[edit]
ei enää käkeä kukuta (literally, “won't make the cuckoo sing anymore”)
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) to be close to dying, be in very poor health
Conjugation[edit]
Always used in negative. See kukuttaa.