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kei noho ... ka ...

1. do not, don't you dare, don't even think about it - an idiom.

(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 151;)

Kei noho koe ka haere ki te ngahere. / Don't you dare go to the bush.
Kāore ia i whakaae mā ngā komiti Māori ngā whenua Māori e whakahaere. Ko tāna, kei noho kei whakararurarutia ngā tuakoi whenua o te rohe o Te Wairarapa (TTR 1994:47). / He did not agree that the Māori committees be given the power to deal with Māori lands. In his opinion, the land divisions should be left alone lest it caused problems.

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