Bagai aur dengan tebing
Meaning: A mutually supportive relationship.
Language: Malay
Literally: Like bamboo and the riverbank
Category: Nature
Origin: The bamboo and the bank hold each other up against the current's erosion, picturing true interdependence.
More idioms — Nature
- Harapkan pagar, pagar makan padi — Betrayed by the very one you trusted to protect you.
- Bagai pinang dibelah dua — Two people perfectly alike or well matched.
- Siarad fel pwll y môr — To talk endlessly without pause.
- Is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn — The grass is always greener elsewhere.
- Caught between a rock and a hard place — Stuck between two equally bad options.
- Estar en Babia — To be daydreaming and miles away.
More Malay idioms
- Ada udang di sebalik batu — There is a hidden motive.
- Melepaskan batuk di tangga — To do a job half-heartedly and leave it unfinished.
- Kacang lupakan kulit — To forget your roots and origins.
From our compliments & insults
- Courir sur le haricot — To get badly on someone's nerves.
- Tienes menos luces que un barco pirata — You're really not the brightest.
- Eres más lento que el caballo del malo — You're painfully slow — the villain's horse never catches the hero.