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“Translation is like a net […]” – Problems with Translation of Phrasemes from German to Polish Phraseme are multi-word or multi-morphemic patterns with specialized meanings and functions or patterns which are typically figurative and which have non-compositional meanings. The meanings of phrasemes in two (or more) languages are rarely identical, so a translator who has to find an equivalent to a phraseme often faces an extremely difficult task. In this paper, phrasemes as a translation problem are illustrated by many examples form contemporary fiction and Internet texts.