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Depending on the context, ganz unten/niedrig in der Hackordnung may fit. It refers to somebody or something ranking lowest in some hierarchy. Literally it means at the bottom end of the pecking order. …

First beware that this is a typical case of academia varies more than you think it does. There is no general rule on how doctoral exams are done; instead, this is decided by the faculty. As a conseque …

Legally, the English trespass to land and the German Hausfriedensbruch are mostly analogous: You unlawfully and intentionally enter another’s land. So, technically Hausfriedensbruch would be an accept …

I have two suggestions: Ich machte den/die [Name] (mit ihm/ihr). for example: Ich machte die Clinton. To give a specific example: Den Guttenberg machen would either be plagiarising someth …

In my experience from a neighbouring field, window in this sense is generally translated to Fenster in German, which is confirmed, e.g., by the German Wikipedia article on Fensterfunktion. Going from …

In seiner unendlichen Weisheit is correct and idiomatic, i.e., it is actually used by native speakers. However, there are two other idiomatic alternatives you might want to consider: In seiner nicht …

Consider sich an etwas die Zähne ausbeißen. It means that you are failing to solve some problem despite putting a lot of effort in it. Literally, it means to bite out one’s own teeth. (I always associ …

I would employ the term Mittlerer Westen (the Midwest) for the North Central States because that’s a term that is often used in German media and similar. Thus, for the West North Central States, you w …

Having spent some time in academia now and having talked to many German academians, I am pretty convinced that there is no German word matching the English paper or article (which do not mean exactly …

The central problem is how to translate the respective disciplines. The most common ways to denote a discipline are: [Corresponding Latin word] + -istik. [Corresponding Greek word] + -logie. [Corres …

A somewhat more free translation would involve not using a subclause: […], gerade nach dem kalten Winter. […], insbesondere angesichts des kalten Winters. [rather formal] […], erst recht nach dem kal …

If this is about the nickname of a criminal (like der Vampir von Düsseldorf – the vampire of Düsseldorf), a possible German adaption of the name would be Feuerteufel. I would not go as far as calling …

Vorweg: Als Amerikaner, Asiate, amerikanisch bzw. asiatisch verstehe ich jemanden, der langfristig auf dem Kontinent lebt oder lebte oder eine entsprechende Staatsbürgerschaft hat, und so verwende ich …

Depending on the nature of the handwaving, one of the following may fit: Ein salopper Beweis – It’s what I prefer to use in such a situation, though I usually apply it to certain steps of a proof an …

Da das Wort corporatocracy selbst auf den englischen Varianten eines lateinischen (corporatio) und griechischen Wortes (krátos, κράτος) beruht, liegt es nahe deren deutschen Varianten zu benutzen, wom …