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kotahi mai (ana)

1. straight for, straight here, straight for me, make a beeline for me - an idiom used to indicate that something is going straight towards the speaker.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 181;)

Kotahi mai ana ki te whakaatu mai e aha kē ana ngā iwi o reira. / They made a beeline for me, to tell me what the people there were doing.

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