Vosa mada o iko, e rovu e liu na batimu.
“Please, go ahead and speak, since your teeth sprouted before mine.”
A respectful, good-natured way of yielding the floor to someone older.
— Traditional Fiji Wisdom, Fiji
Source: Traditional Fiji proverb (iTaukei), public-domain oral tradition
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