kom
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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> His or her face is ugly.
> Including yourself how many people live in your household?
> I'm leaving, but I don't know if I really want to (lit., my heart keeps returning).
> You're not paying any attention (i.e. it's as if you were sleeping).
> He's very good at climbing./He's always beating around the bush.
Proverbs:
> You're just like a cat washing yourself.
i.e., you have to do everything yourself because your relatives are neglecting their obligations to you.
> Like the duck of Ngechur, he became industrious after growing old.
The idiom is applied to a person who has more or less vegetated into maturity and old age and who, already far past his prime, suddenly tries without success to do all the things he might have done when younger. It may be used with reference to an elder who tries to be a dandy.
> You're just like a lobster (flambuoyant in color but prone to hide under rocks.
You dress up fancy but never go anywhere. Applicable to a person who prides himself on great wealth but does not put it to work; or to one who dresses to the hilt, then stays home. It may once have been applied to villages that were well armed, but peaceful.
> Like the core of the mangrove log.
The core of the mangrove tree (keburs) has the interesting quality of being quite soft and workable when green, but very hard and durable when dried. Hence, a person of old age, especially a high-titled elder; one who has reached great age. Wider applications include a long-standing tradition; a long-term employee.
> You're a flying kite, but i hold the guide string.
No matter how much you play around, you always come back to me.
More Examples:
> The silhouette of that woman is very attractive.
> You're like the jellyfish that do not have a destination.
> No. He or she only feels dizzy.
> We were walking fine on the road until a really fast car sped by that abruptly forced us into a ditch.
> The bench is wobbly so we might fall.

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