mlai, n.canoe; car; automobile; transportation.
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mlai er a Siabalexpr.Japanese car.
Examples:
> There are a lot of complaints about the noise from cars.
> Droteo('s car) hit my car.
> If I had money, (then) I'd buy a new car.
> The old man is teaching the boy how to carve canoes.
> Did Joseph drive his car anywhere?
Proverbs:
> Like the man of Ngerechemai, who lost his turtle and lost his canoe.
Relates to a fisherman who jumped from his canoe to catch a turtle only to find that his canoe had drifted beyond recovery. Applies to any situation where a person fails at a task, or, aptly, to a situation where a man, through his own foolishness, loses both his wife and his mistress.
> Don't be like the man from Ngerchemai who lost both the turtle and the canoe.
Don't bite off more than you can chew...don't be selfish.
> Like Kerosene, poling his canoe with no obvious destination
Under the German administrator Winkler before World War I, a Palauan named Ngirakerisil (Mr. Kerosene) was employed as a canoe operator. Daily he would take the tireless administrator to a different part of Palau to inspect the various economic programs (largely coconut planting) instituted by the now legendary Winkler. The operator, least of all, could predict where they would be going next. The idiom is applied to any aimless person or action; indecision; a changeable person.
More Examples:
> I was driving a car and the police caught me because I don't have a license.
> My friend's friend got hit by a car. She is so lucky she didn't die.
> I really don't know how to drive these Japanese cars.
> I only have two months to pay off for my car.
> I'm smirking at the people working for the government, do they think they own these government vehicles when they're behind the wheels.

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