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koia pū

1. that's it in a nutshell, exactly, precisely, you've got it, you've hit the nail on the head, that's the guts of it - an idiom to indicate that someone has made a statement that is exactly right.

Ki te whakaaro o te iwi Māori o Te Wairarapa ko Tūnuiārangi te whakatinanatanga o ētahi o aua poropititanga, ā, koia pū ōna whakaaro (TTR 1996:260). / In the opinion of the Māori people of Wairarapa, Tūnuiārangi was the fulfillment of some of those prophecies, and that's exactly what he thought.

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