kaki bangku
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Malay:
kaki bangku
Detailed etymology
definitions
adjective
- (idiom) clumsy; bumbling; having two left feet, especially when playing sports
noun
- (metaphor) clumsiness; two left feet
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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