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    3 months ago

    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.