Palauan Language Online: Palau Language Proverbs Quiz

Palau Language Proverbs Quiz

QUESTION 1:

Please choose the corrective figurative meaning for this proverb:

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).
i.e., you get involved in things that may hurt you.
This is a new idiom, probably coming into the language as a result of changes in policy whereby Saipan, in the past couple of decades, has been in and out of the Trust Territory as administered by the Department of the Interior. Application is to the indecisive or changeable leader
"To push into a pile" is the literal meaning of oltengkou, now applied to a bulldozer. Idiomatically, the act of piling on expensive and unwanted gifts. The recipient knows that he will be asked to reciprocate in kind at some future time. Also a persistent rejected sweetheart. Some moderns simply use the English term
The saying defines life as a confined, perilous journey, symbolized by the painful narrowness of the birth canal. Generally applied to the trials of life, or sometimes by a parent to a child that does not want to do his chores.

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