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kia ahatia ai [koe]

1. what business is it of yours, what's it got to do with you, why should it be my concern, so what, what do you want me to do about it - an idiom to indicate that the speaker has no interest in the matter being raised.

Rangi: Kei te mōhio au ki ngā whakautu tika ki te rārangi pātai nei. Pare: Kia ahatia ai koe? (HKK 1999:90). / Rangi: I know the right answers to this list of questions. Pare: So what do you want me to do about it?

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