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.