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kia kīia ai (hoki)

1. up you too, so what - sometimes used as an idiom to show one's anathema to an opinion or activity that has just been stated by someone regarded as being arrogant or overbearing.

Pare: Ko au te mea mōhio katoa ki ērā mea. Kāore he mea e kātata mai ki a au. Rangi: Kia kīia ai! (HKK 1999:89). / Pare: I'm the most knowledgeable about those things. Nobody can touch me. Rangi: Up you too!

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