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.