Eli5: Why do some languages get lost in translation?

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I get that ofcourse no languages will be exactly identical but as a bilingual, whenever i watch a show with my native language and the subtitles are set on to my second language, so many of the meanings get lost in translation even when the translation is pretty accurate? How could this be

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I asked my mother-in-law if she could iron my shirt for me because I had a job interview the next day.

“Of course, I will put it on top of my eye”

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