Malu malu kucing, which unintelligibly translates to "shy shy cat," is a popular Indonesian idiom often employed to describe bashful children (who do not want to practice their English with me). The exact meaning of the malu malu kucing evades me yet, but one of my fellow English teachers put it like this: "You know, when the cat is shy in front of the person and then when the person leaves, she catches the fish." Of course.
