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.

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