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by Aardwolf 1261 days ago
What if you actually want to literally translate "There's mud all over the shop"?
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And this is where I found translation services to fall apart.

I worry a lot of language getting will be lost in an effort to reduce it to something a machine can handle.

I think in that context, it's already literal. "All over the shop" as an idiom means disorganized, chaotic. I don't use it to mean "all over the place" in the sense of something pervading some location.