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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> Toki has just heard the news.
> That's a great idea.
> If you find something good, then remember us.
> He's quiet and motionless (like a carved doll).
> His family and the villagers were quite surprised at the boy's sudden good health and quick recovery.
Proverbs:
> 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.
> You're like the Ngcheangel banana (meduch a ngerel).
You're all talk and no action).
> Like Tangerekoi
The tangerekoi is a portion of the rafters of a club or community hall that serves as a shelf (rekoi). It is also the name of a demigod ranking with several figures who are mentioned in the origin legends. The idiom refers to the multiple functions of the tangerekoi (even as rafters, or shelf), as resembling the work of a woman's world. When a person is already busy and is asked to take on another task, he may say: "Who do you think I am, Tangerekoi?
> Like the kingfisher, chattering while taking to wing.
The kingfisher, a restless, bullying bluebird, may be heard to chatter loudly when flying up from the ground or from a perch. The saying applies to one who suddenly spouts instructions to a group, then leaves, or to a leader at a meeting who impatiently interrupts a discussion with a burst of pronouncements, then ends the meeting.
> Like the running elder.
Elders do not run fast, but they can run for great distances. Young men can sprint, but have little endurance. Hence, a person with enduring persistence.
More Examples:
> It's strange to be married.
> She looks so beautiful with her traditional grass skirt and decorations except her lips look inside out with that lipstick.
> Unruly kids that have twisted the pigeon's neck so it died.
> John is taking too long and his wife is "like a decorated lobster" waiting for him.
> Do you still remember when you were young?

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