kom
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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> They are like greedy dogs that never get enough.
> Whenever I'm with you, it seems as if we're always going from one thing to another.
> He has protruding ears (lit., his ears are like wings).
> I've just gotten (a chance) to study.
> Droteo spoke as if he wants to go to the party.
Proverbs:
> He's like the rabbit fish in Ngetmeduch, which jumps into the net (seemingly) of its own will.
i.e. He always drops by without having been invited. At one point in their life cycle the meas, a tasty, black reef fish, school close to the surface in the shallow lagoon near Ngetmeduch (Koror) and may be easily caught with the derau, a two-part net consisting of two scoop nets, one held in each hand (hence sometimes "butterfly net"). The idiom is applied to a person who habitually appears without invitation at parties or feasts.
> You're like the stork which flies with its legs dangling.
You leave unfinished business behind and split.
> Like a person somewhere taking a bath, but I'm cold.
Applies to any embarrassing act, such as boasting or gossiping, on the part of a friend.
> 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.
> She's like the clams at Murael, lying face up (and open) and asking for news.
i.e., she just sits at home asking passersby about what's going on outside. Murael is a reef near Ngerechelong where, as elsewhere in Palau, the various kinds of tradacna shell bask, open and feeding, in the shallow lagoon. The saying applies to gullibility combined with high curiosity for news and to persons who simply sit at home, letting the happenings of the community come to them via passing persons.
More Examples:
> You are young and idiotic.
> Wow, that's really it!
> As soon as I went they said let's go.
> John is taking too long and his wife is "like a decorated lobster" waiting for him.
> You are so like them seaweeds at Kosiil!

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