kom
/ko
, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> Your friend speaks with a forked tongue.
> Droteo persuaded Maria to finally go to the police.
> I've just heard the news.
> Something's wrong between Satsko and Tony.
> At any rate, you (two) have a child, so you might as well get married.
Proverbs:
> Like a man circumcised, insufficient skin.
Circumcision seems to have been known in Palau prior to contact, perhaps through contact with the Philippines, but was not widely practiced. As in this context, it usually draws attention in the form of ridicule. The idiom applies to any circumstance in which there has been insufficient preparation or planning; a premature decision.
> You're like the Ngcheangel banana (meduch a ngerel).
You're all talk and no action).
> It's like taking a shower at Tellei's bath, when somebody takes a shower, you shiver from the cold.
Someone's actions makes you embarrassed.
> That man is like a duck.
The native duck, debar, doesn't fly very well, or high like other birds, it doesn't walk or run like some animals, it can't sing well, and it doesn't swim as well as a fish. But it can do all these things. Applied to a person who seemingly can do many different things, none of them expertly. "Jack of all trades."
> Like the sea-horse worm.
The kobesos is a small eel-like creature with the head of a sea horse. It never faces another fish directly but always shies away sideways. The saying is applied to a person who is too bashful or backward in a public situation.
More Examples:
> She looks so beautiful with her traditional grass skirt and decorations except her lips look inside out with that lipstick.
> It is weird being married. You're not on your own anymore. It's like something is attached to you all the time.
> Excluding Ulang seems excessive.
> 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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