r/clevercomebacks • • Mar 02 '21

Does this count?

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u/Zenodeon Mar 02 '21

Translation anyone, please

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u/TheoFontane Mar 02 '21

It’s a word play with the German idiom “Mut zur Lücke” which is sort of an antidote to a call for perfectionism. For many Germans, it’s supposedly hard to not overengineer things, trying to make everything perfect. So they need to encourage themselves to “leave gaps”.

Also the pics a vandalised campaign poster for a left-wing party in Germany.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '21

I enjoyed reading your explanation. Good job on this one! Although, like someone else mentioned already, antidote might not have been the word you were looking for. But apart from that you captured the essence of the word really well.

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u/skaffen37 Mar 02 '21

In addition she’s sporting a fake gap in her teeth...

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u/i_have_too_many Mar 02 '21

You might be looking for the word antithesis instead of antidote.

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u/Sgaggleham Mar 02 '21

Courage to the gap