“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
More Proverbs from Kuwait
Sponsored
ZakGT — the world's books & quotes, by country
Real words. Real people. One global standard.