Back in my interpretation classes where we also took international culture regarding the study, our instructor told us of a story about that.
A translator mis-interpreted a message from Japanese to the US government wrong (he translated it word-to-word which is the epic fail way of interpretation) and didn't understand the idom, causing a Japanese ship to sink.
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