mlai, n.canoe; car; automobile; transportation.
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mlai er a Siabalexpr.Japanese car.
Examples:
> My car is really getting old and is making rattling noises.
> Droteo learned how to make canoes from his father.
> Droteo pretends that he knows how to repair cars.
> May I borrow your car?
> We will push the car.
Proverbs:
> 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.
> 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 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.
More Examples:
> I'm smirking at the people working for the government, do they think they own these government vehicles when they're behind the wheels.
> My friend's wife can't drive now.
> I really don't know how to drive these Japanese cars.
> I was driving a car and the police caught me because I don't have a license.
> Do you know how to drive a car?

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