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These days, you can easily look them up. To viz: https://dict.leo.org/german-english/waiting%20for%20the%20other%20shoe%20to%20drop https://dict.leo.org/german-

by morsch 5y ago

These days, you can easily look them up. To viz: https://dict.leo.org/german-english/waiting%20for%20the%20other%20shoe%20to%20drop https://dict.leo.org/german-english/waiting%20for%20the%20ot... Interestingly, the first given translation is itself an idiom (lit. "to wait for the thick/fat end"). An idiom I understand, even though I had no idea where it's from; I looked it up, it relates to corporal punishment. The second translation is a more generic one.

FearNotDaniel 5y ago
The second translation is a biblical reference, where a "Hiobsbotschaft" implies receiving news of a further tragedy, invoking the Old Testament character Job (Hiob), whose faith was tested by suffering great losses. Unfortunately neither of these help to understand the English shoe idiom which I, as a native English speaker, have no clue about.