kia kīia ai (hoki)
1. up you too, so what - sometimes used as an idiom to show one's anathema to an opinion or activity that has just been stated by someone regarded as being arrogant or overbearing.
Pare: Ko au te mea mōhio katoa ki ērā mea. Kāore he mea e kātata mai ki a au. Rangi: Kia kīia ai! (HKK 1999:89). / Pare: I'm the most knowledgeable about those things. Nobody can touch me. Rangi: Up you too!
kia/e/i kīia ai [koe] he aha
1. so what are you saying? - an idiom used to respond to someone who is being arrogant or belittling.
Pare: E kui, kāore e tika ana ngā hū pango i hokona mai nei e koe mōku. He whero taku kākahu, he whero taku pōtae. Me whero anō pea aku hū. Rangi: Kia kīia ai koe he aha? (HKK 1999:89). / Pare: Gran, the black shoes that you bought for me aren't right. My dress is red and so is my hat. Perhaps my shoes should also be red. Rangi: So what are you saying?
Rangi: Kāore rātou e whakaae kia wātea te hōtēra ki te hunga kākahu karukaru. Pare: I kīia ai rātou he aha? (HKK 1999:89). / Rangi: They won't allow the hotel to be available for people dressed in scruffy clothes. Pare: So what are they saying?
kī
1. (verb) (-a,-ia,-tia) to say, speak, express, utter, call, mention, tell, designate.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 7;)
2. (noun) saying, word.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 7;)
Ko te kī, i whānau a Hōne (Hōni) Tāmati Pereki i Ōrākei, i Ākarana i te 4 o Āperira 1853 (TTR 1996:7). / The word is that John Thomas Blake was born at Ōrākei, Auckland, on 4 April 1853.
Synonyms: rerenga kōrero, pepeha, kupu, whakapepeha, kīnga, tūātau, kīanga
