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Like the saqawa bird — here for a season, gone before it lays an egg.

Describes someone who passes briefly through a place, job, or relationship and leaves nothing lasting behind, likened to a migratory bird that visits Kuwait only briefly each year without nesting.

Traditional Kuwait Wisdom, Kuwait

Source: Mahmoud Aziz F. Yassin, "Kuwaiti Arabic Idioms," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1 (1978), pp. 67-72

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