ei enää käkeä kukuta in Finnish

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Etymology: 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). Head templates: {{head|fi|verb|cat2=|cat3=|head=ei enää käkeä kukuta|sort=}} ei enää käkeä kukuta, {{fi-verb|head=ei enää käkeä kukuta}} ei enää käkeä kukuta

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  "etymology_text": "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).",
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      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
    {
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      },
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    }
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  "lang_code": "fi",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be close to dying, be in very poor health"
      ],
      "id": "en-ei_enää_käkeä_kukuta-fi-verb-Zt71g96X",
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        [
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          "dying"
        ],
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      ],
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        "(idiomatic, euphemistic) to be close to dying, be in very poor health"
      ],
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        "euphemistic",
        "idiomatic",
        "literally"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ei enää käkeä kukuta"
}

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{
  "etymology_text": "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).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "verb",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "ei enää käkeä kukuta",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ei enää käkeä kukuta",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "ei enää käkeä kukuta"
      },
      "expansion": "ei enää käkeä kukuta",
      "name": "fi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Finnish euphemisms",
        "Finnish idioms",
        "Finnish lemmas",
        "Finnish multiword terms",
        "Finnish phrasal verbs",
        "Finnish verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be close to dying, be in very poor health"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dying",
          "dying"
        ],
        [
          "health",
          "health"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, euphemistic) to be close to dying, be in very poor health"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "idiomatic",
        "literally"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ei enää käkeä kukuta"
}

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"ei enää käkeä kukuta" meaning in Finnish

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