kom
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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> Your friend speaks with a forked tongue.
> He's very good at climbing./He's always beating around the bush.
> We have no direction or organization.
> That's a great idea.
> said Charlotte, to sort of give Wilbur courage.
Proverbs:
> You're like the stork which flies with its legs dangling.
You leave unfinished business behind and split.
> He's like Chelebesoi of Ngeriil, dead in a fishtrap not his own.
A man named Chelebesoi (also the name of a fish) was robbing another man's fish trap when a head-hunting party came by and removed his head. He lost both his head and his reputation. The idiom may apply to one who gets hurt while trying to do someone else's job.
> 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 raid at Ulong, doing it in the evening
Pertains to a battle between the people of the once-inhabited islands of Ulong and Ngemelis in which the leader of the Ngemelis forces successfully defeated those of Ulong by attacking in the evening with the setting sun directly at his back, blinding the Ulong forces. Application is to a meeting or task, which might better have been started earlier, postponed until evening
> 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.)
More Examples:
> Lukes looks really weird because she is just cutting her hair and it's all messed up.
> Have you all agreed what we will be doing tomorrow?
> Wow, that's really it!
> You are like the clam of bengall, never moves an inch but always adored.
> May I be excused and go to bed, feeling a bit sleepy.

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