Palauan Language Online: Palau Language Proverbs Quiz

Palau Language Proverbs Quiz

QUESTION 1:

Please choose the corrective figurative meaning for this proverb:

The sebus is said to be the smallest fish in the sea. The idiom may be applied to one who belittles another if the latter is really far more powerful or prestigious. It can be applied in the reverse, referring to a person who shrinks from an inferior foe or from easy work.
Women of the wealthy elite in old Palau would be tattooed up the entire leg and about the thighs and hips. Reference is to the black color of such tattooing and the phrase may be applied to any dark occasion, but usually to dark clouds.
"Distant eras" refers to the past as well as the future; hence, the distant past reveals the distant future. A person's behavior in the past will tell how he will behave in the future.
A child who gives the appearance of being withdrawn and quiet, but who, on occasion, is very wild.
Cooked taro will spoil in time, unless it is reboiled (blelekl). Among other applications the saying may pertain to a man who marries, separates, then returns to the same woman; also a man who returns to a former job.

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