I think that can be true even for native speakers. As a child, you tend to learn the connotative meaning of a word, without thinking too much about the literal meaning. I've had those lightbulb moments, too!

Ehh... the geophysicists want a word.

Kein Wunder bei den schweizerischen Skipasspreisen!

Recommend to try this in Nürnberg:

Good luck with that!

There are other flavours? 😳

AI gone rogue surely?

Excellent news - congratulations! And welcome to the club.

Denke ich auch. Ob aber Trump sich dessen bewusst ist, was man mit Lampedusa und Lesbos verbindet, steht zu bezweifeln. Der denkt eher an sein Erscheinungsbild in den U.S. Morgennachrichten.

Everything's a holiday to him. He'll be asking for the nearest golf course next.

Guter Kontext hier:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

How is the 5% hurdle possibly anti-democratic? It is designed "to concentrate the distribution of seats in order to promote stable majorities and to counteract political fragmentation by small parties []" Important as PR also promotes coalition governments.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_pe...

Stimme voll überein. In seiner Persönlichkeit und Sozialethik war dieser Papst jedoch eine willkommene Veränderung. Das wiederholte Scheitern liegt letzten Endes am katholischen Machtapparat.

The one that will hopefully never be shared by Space Karen.

I don't mind the MAGAs crossing the event horizon.