kom
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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> Your friend speaks with a forked tongue.
> Whenever I'm with you, it seems as if we're always going from one thing to another.
> At any rate, you (two) have a child, so you might as well get married.
> My throat feels sore.
> This looks empty.
Proverbs:
> Like the blow at Utaor, one stroke for all.
A person or perhaps a club of the hamlet of Utaor (a hamlet of either Koror or Chol) offended a major village and, in consequence, the village retaliated by attacking the whole hamlet. The idiom applies to any general statement or punishment that might better be directed toward a particular group or individual
> Like Ngiramesemong, rehashing what has been finished.
Pertains to a person who repeatedly reminds another of past favors or continually recalls the mistakes of others. (My sources no longer recalled the episode or story from which this idiom derives.)
> Like Ngirekolik
Ngirekolik never completed a task before he ran off to do another. The name can be translated "Mr. Fruitbat," apparently in reference to the animal's eating habit
> Like a person somewhere taking a bath, but I'm cold.
Applies to any embarrassing act, such as boasting or gossiping, on the part of a friend.
> Like a pigeon-seeing the danger, yet it flies from cover
The pigeon sits quietly concealed until some threat appears, then it flies out, revealing itself. The idiom applies to a person who unnecessarily exposes himself to danger, leaves the house in the rain, or takes a boat out in a storm.
More Examples:
> Do you want to have lunch or dinner sometime?
> The bench is wobbly so we might fall.
> She looks so beautiful with her traditional grass skirt and decorations except her lips look inside out with that lipstick.
> You are so like them seaweeds at Kosiil!
> Be honest and say you don't want to go instead of going and then regretting it.

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