noun

Plural - amakuto

MEANING.

A sort of frame made of a gummy substance, blocking the entrance of a beehive in a tree-trunk. A few holes are left for the entrance and exit of the bees.

 

FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS.

Ukakuulila ikuto umukwa literal translation You prepare a piece of bark (for carrying honey) merely because you have seen the entrance to a beehive. MEANING Don’t count the chickens before they are hatched.