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kua pau [te] hau

1. run out of oomph, given up the ghost, run out of steam, exhausted, used up - an idiom used to indicate that a person has run out of energy or something no longer works.

Kua pau te hau o taku waea pūkoro. / My cellphone has given up the ghost.

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