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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).
> You're like the terriid bird which stays among the taro plants but goes hungry (i.e. you're surrounded by girls but can't make it with any of them).
> This is the first time you've been here in ages.
> I've just heard the news.
> Why are you doing mischief in you own house?
Proverbs:
> It's like the first drop of feces of Ngiraidechiil.
i.e. the best or worst is yet to come. Ngiraidechiil had just assembled his fishing gear when he felt the urge to relieve himself. In the bush he started to do so when, with the first small drop of feces, a rat scooted under him and made off with it. He looked at the scurrying animal and called: "Wait, you, that was just the first drop, more and bigger ones will follow!" The resulting saying has to do with desirability of delayed rewards. It was used, for example, with reference to the first rations received from the military following World War II.
> Puffed out like a puffer fish.
A boastful person is like a puffer fish, full of air and not edible, hence not worthy of note.
> 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.
> It's like the rat of Ngerard, which eats up all your coconuts and (then) all of ours.
It's a decision, plan etc. that will backfire. A pet rat owned by Mad, chief of Ngaraard, ate the coconuts of most of the chief's neighbors, then, still hungry, ate the chief's own coconuts.
> He's like the road in Ngerebodel (which doesn't go anywhere in particular)
i.e. he's expanding a lot of effort but not getting anywhere. There was once, in the hamlet of Ngerebodl (in Koror, central Palau), reputedly a very fine boulder path which began and ended nowhere in particular. The idiom may describe a person who seems to be working hard toward no apparent objective
More Examples:
> Honey, cant you pound some taro so we could eat?
> Be honest and say you don't want to go instead of going and then regretting it.
> It is weird being married. You're not on your own anymore. It's like something is attached to you all the time.
> You all are so pretentious and fancy and meanwhile we are just eating scrap.
> You are young and idiotic.

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