toitoi okewa
1. (noun) inviting a lack of success in hunting, fishing, etc., counting one's chickens before they hatch.
Uru: Kei a au te pata me te parāoa, heoi anō tāu, he whakahoki mai i tā tāua tāmure! Pare: E hoa, kāti te toitoi okewa! Ka pūhore noa taku haere i ēnā tū kōrero (HJ 2012:21). / Uru: I have the butter and the bread, and all you've got to do is bring back our snapper! Pare: My fiend, stop counting your chickens before they hatch! That type of talk is inviting failure.
