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    I feel like there's a good backstory to this one :P Commented May 22, 2017 at 13:38
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    Not enough for an answer, therefore here as comment: I always found that the TV series Scrubs had a very good German localization. Specifically, Dr. Cox calling JD "newbie" was translated into German as Flachzange, which are literally flat pliers. I never heard it in use before but it fits just perfectly, somehow.
    – Ian
    Commented May 23, 2017 at 6:35
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    You can't really use Flachzange that anywhere else though, it's idiosyncratic. Commented May 23, 2017 at 7:24
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    Also, Flachzange does not connote new-ness at all, only stupidity and inferiority. Commented May 23, 2017 at 12:55
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    @HagenvonEitzen - neither does "noob", really. People who have played Dota for 10 years still get called noobs every day.
    – Davor
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 12:48