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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If I told you this sentence:

“Man, Bill really knocked it out of the park today.”

But you’d never heard the phrase or baseball isn’t big in your country, then that literal meaning doesn’t really make sense. Because you don’t have the cultural context to understand what the phrase is referencing

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