kaki bangku

Malay:

kaki bangku

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definitions

adjective

  1. (idiom) clumsy; bumbling; having two left feet, especially when playing sports

noun

  1. (metaphor) clumsiness; two left feet
  2. Especially if he turns out to have what Malaysian soccer fans rudely call "kaki bangku" ... the kind that cannot begin to kick a football right.

    — 1984 May 17, Sri Delima (Adibah Amin). The Straits Times, "Names that people will trip over". p.16

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