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The confusion for me was that when I stomp something out, it dies. That’s not the intended verb here, but context clues alone do not a language make.

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Mistranslation of the German Idiom “(etwas) aus dem Boden Stampfen”, to create (something) from nothing (lit. to stomp (something) out of the ground).

Easy mistake for bilinguals to make, I was convinced it was an English Idiom as well until I looked it up.

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Thanks! I have a fondness for German idiom. “The devil shits on the biggest pile” might be my favourite.

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