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e iro e iro!

1. you should've learnt your lesson! you should know better!.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 116;)

Kua ngau taku puku, he kaihoro nōku. E iro, e iro! (HKK 1999:97) / I've got a stomach ache because I was a guts. You should've known better!

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