kom
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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> You're like a starling (i.e. you do something undesirable and later deny it or make excuses about it).
> At any rate, you (two) have a child, so you might as well get married.
> said Charlotte, to sort of give Wilbur courage.
> They are like greedy dogs that never get enough.
> You look really happy or elated.
Proverbs:
> It's like the feast of Ngchesar, postponed till tomorrow, then the next, and forever.
You keep saying tomorrow, tomorrow. You're lucky there's a tomorrow. Presumably, in the past the village of Ngchesar in central Palau tried and tried again to schedule a mur, the largest, villagewide feast conducted in Palau. But for various reasons the feast was forever postponed. The saying applies to the risk of procrastination.
> Like the man who made coconut syrup in Ngesebei, dipping from half-filled containers to keep one overflowing.
Pertains to a situation which may have occurred in Ngesebei, a small hamlet in Ngardmau (northern Palau): a coconutsyrup specialist always kept one coconutshell container full and in sight of guests, who, thus, would think that all of his containers were full. The idiom applies to any pointed display of opulence. It's a deceptive display of wealth.
> Like Ngiramesemong, rehashing what has been finished.
Pertains to a person who repeatedly reminds another of past favors or continually recalls the mistakes of others. (My sources no longer recalled the episode or story from which this idiom derives.)
> Like the crotch of an aristocratic woman.
Women of the wealthy elite in old Palau would be tattooed up the entire leg and about the thighs and hips. Reference is to the black color of such tattooing and the phrase may be applied to any dark occasion, but usually to dark clouds.
> You're like the old man of Ngerechelong who uses a cloud to mark the location of his fishtrap.
i.e. you depend too much on people who are unreliable.
More Examples:
> Do you still remember when you were young?
> You are like the clam of bengall, never moves an inch but always adored.
> Do you want to have lunch or dinner sometime?
> You all are so pretentious and fancy and meanwhile we are just eating scrap.
> As soon as I went they said let's go.

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