kom
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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> I've just heard the news.
> It's the first time it's rained in a long while.
> You take them to Oreng's home.
> His or her face is ugly.
> Who is wise enough to count the clouds and tilt them over to pour out the rain?
Proverbs:
> Like the kingfisher, chattering while taking to wing.
The kingfisher, a restless, bullying bluebird, may be heard to chatter loudly when flying up from the ground or from a perch. The saying applies to one who suddenly spouts instructions to a group, then leaves, or to a leader at a meeting who impatiently interrupts a discussion with a burst of pronouncements, then ends the meeting.
> Like the octopus, able to change the color of its body.
He's too erratic or too easily persuaded. A leader, or any person, who is highly erratic, too adaptive; one who appears capable of taking any convenient or easy position.
> That man is like a duck.
The native duck, debar, doesn't fly very well, or high like other birds, it doesn't walk or run like some animals, it can't sing well, and it doesn't swim as well as a fish. But it can do all these things. Applied to a person who seemingly can do many different things, none of them expertly. "Jack of all trades."
> It's like the way they eat in Ngeraus (where food is scarce): as soon as they get to like or enjoy the food, it's gone.
Just as something becomes popular, it becomes unavailable. Ngerraus is a small village in Ngchesar (central Palau). The idiom suggests a person who begins to feel hungry just as the food runs out. The reference is to the meager food resources of a small village. In contemporary Palau the idiom may be applied to some popular import that soon disappears from the shelves of the stores.
> You're like a beetle that burns itself by flying into the fire.
You're always getting yourself into trouble.
More Examples:
> John is taking too long and his wife is "like a decorated lobster" waiting for him.
> Lukes looks really weird because she is just cutting her hair and it's all messed up.
> Unruly kids that have twisted the pigeon's neck so it died.
> Your clothes are piled up like you're a snake shedding its skin.
> We were walking fine on the road until a really fast car sped by that abruptly forced us into a ditch.

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