Figures of Speech

People talk in the grain of the world.
Saying
Meaning
It went dayward
It is lost or wasted and will not come back. Water that reaches the salt does not return.
To go nightward for it
To take the hard way; to go to the source of a matter.
Upwind of it
Before it; not yet touched by it.
Downwind of them
Living with the results of what other people do.
To give someone your lee (toa kinga)
To put yourself between a person and what is hard for them.
To sweep nightward
To do useless work.
Side-on
Not fighting a thing and not giving way to it.