| 147 | ʻAʻohe ʻike o ka puaʻa nona ka imu e hōʻā ʻia nei. | The pig does not know that the imu is being lighted for it. |
| | [Said of a person who is unaware that he is being victimized.] |
| 227 | ʻAʻole i ʻenaʻena ka imu i ka māmane me ka ʻūlei, i ʻenaʻena i ka laʻolaʻo. | The imu is not heated by māmane and ʻūlei wood alone, but also by the kindling. |
| | [To be powerful, a ruler must have the loyalty of the common people as well as the chiefs.] |
| 351 | E mānalo ka hala o ke kanaka i ka imu o ka puaʻa. | The wrongs done by man are atoned for by a pig in the imu. |
| | [When a person has committed a wrong against others or against the gods, he makes an offering of a hog with prayers of forgiveness.] |
| 380 | E uhi wale nō ʻaʻole e nalo, he imu puhi. | No matter how much one covers a steaming imu, the smoke will rise. |
| | [The secret will get out.] |
| 633 | He imu pale ʻole; huikau ka nohona. | An uncovered oven; abiding in confusion. |
| | [Like an imu in which each kind of food is not set apart in its own place, but piled in helter skelter, so is a promiscuous and careless family.] |
| 634 | He imu puhi na ka lā o Kalaʻe. | Kalaʻe is made a steaming oven by the sun. |
| | [At Kalaʻe, Molokaʻi, stood an imu that was said to have baked the rain, making it a dry place.] |
| 1677 | Ke aliʻi nāna e kālua i ke poʻo i ka imu a poʻalo aʻe i nā maka. | The chief who can roast the head in the imu and scoop out the eyes. |
| | [Said of a chief who had the power and authority to have the head of one who offended him cut off and roasted in an imu, or to order his eyes dug out. The heads were roasted and then discarded, a warning to lesser chiefs and commoners to respect their superiors.] |
| 2239 | Na ke kanaka mahiʻai ka imu ō nui. | The well-filled imu belongs to the man who tills the soil. |
| 2544 | ʻO wahie ka ʻai, ʻo loli ka iʻa, ʻo muku ka imu. | Wood is the vegetable food, sea cucumber is the meat, and a small imu is the only imu. |
| | [Said of scarcity from oppression.] |
| 2768 | Ua ahu ka imu, e lāwalu ka iʻa. | The oven is ready, let the fish wrapped in ti leaves be cooked. |
| | [All preparations have been made; now let us proceed with the work.] |