ei enää käkeä kukuta
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.