ko, mod.just; kind of; similar to; like.
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ko er amod.kind of; like.
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Synonyms: ,
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Examples:
> You're like a taro plant which has big leaves but is still immature (i.e., you talk big but you don't follow through).
> Droteo has the idea that Toki is a little crazy.
> Droteo is rather undecided about travelling to Hawaii.
> I am sweeping the yard and Kora is mopping the floor.
> We are completely uninformed because we don't know any information (about that).
Proverbs:
> Like a racing canoe of Ngerchelong, fast by word of mouth.
Apparently refers to a canoe race of the past when a club of Ngerchelong lost after having given verbal display of greatness. Refers to the bluff or braggart (all-mouth, no action).
> Like the honey bee, celebrating without first boiling down the coconut syrup.
Once coconut syrup, dripping from the cut flower stem, is collected it is thickened by boiling. The honeybee, however, collects his nectar, puts it in the hive without boiling it, then proceeds to fly around noisily as though celebrating the completed task. Hence, to talk or boast loudly about successes and accomplishments when one has none; to make plans but never carry them out; to celebrate without cause.
> Like a fish in deep, clear water, eaten only with the eyes.
Fish are not easily caught in clear water. The idiom applies to that which may be admired but not obtained, like an expensive item or another man's beautiful sweetheart.
> It's like eating reboiled (starchy) food.
Cooked taro will spoil in time, unless it is reboiled (blelekl). Among other applications the saying may pertain to a man who marries, separates, then returns to the same woman; also a man who returns to a former job.
> You're like the stork which flies with its legs dangling.
You leave unfinished business behind and split.
More Examples:
> John is really in a hurry; what's wrong?
> Why are you going swimming when the weather is very bad?
> My mother in law is a bit under the weather.
> I am so starving.
> I feel like eating burnt grated casava.

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