1. we both, both of us - an idiom to state that two or more people share the same attribute, interests, opinion or background.
Tau: Kei te mōhio koe ki a Rōpata? Ira: Āe, ko māua māua i Akopai i ngā tau o ngā waru tekau (HJ 2012:47). / Tau: Do you know Robert? Ira: Yes, we were both at Akopai in the eighties.
See also ko [tāua tāua]
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