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nō hea hoki [tāu]?

1. where did you get that from? - an idiom indicating that the speaker does not believe what he/she has been told.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 53;)

I pēnei au he Māori a Hōri. Nō hea hoki tāu? / I thought George was a Māori. Where did you get that idea from?

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