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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> My car is really getting old and is making rattling noises.
> That's a great idea.
> You're not paying any attention (i.e. it's as if you were sleeping).
> Whenever I'm with you, it seems as if we're always going from one thing to another.
> Are you going by car?
Proverbs:
> He's like Ngerechebal Island, which is neither closer to Imeliik nor closer to Ngerekebesang.
i.e. He's indecisive or not clearly taking sides. A person who is "on the fence," changeable and indecisive. The saying may also be applied to a partly westernized Palauan.
> Like seaweed at Kosiil, out with the tide and in with the tide.
Kosiil is a location in the lagoon where the seaweed can be seen to bend in and out with the tide. The idiom is applied to a leader who is too flexible and unreliable. In the short form (Kora char ra Kosiil) it may simply mean, "I'll go along with what you decide."
> Like the raid at Ulong, doing it in the evening
Pertains to a battle between the people of the once-inhabited islands of Ulong and Ngemelis in which the leader of the Ngemelis forces successfully defeated those of Ulong by attacking in the evening with the setting sun directly at his back, blinding the Ulong forces. Application is to a meeting or task, which might better have been started earlier, postponed until evening
> Like kaldos, putting medicine on a well place, rather than the injury.
Kaldos is a medical treatment, said by some to have been learned from the Germans, in which medicine is applied to a parallel member of an injured part in a way that is supposed to transfer pain to an uninjured place. The idiom is applied to a decision or action that completely misses the point or problem.
> You're like the bisech plant in the backyard which has no purpose.
A person who isn't trusted so he/she is not needed.
More Examples:
> John is really in a hurry; what's wrong?
> John is taking too long and his wife is "like a decorated lobster" waiting for him.
> My mother in law is a bit under the weather.
> Why are you going swimming when the weather is very bad?
> She looks so beautiful with her traditional grass skirt and decorations except her lips look inside out with that lipstick.

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