# die Einschläge kommen näher

die Einschläge kommen näher is a German expression meaning “The situation is getting increasingly dangerous or frightening (especially when expecting to soon be affected even more directly).”.

## Meanings

1. _colloquial_ The situation is getting increasingly dangerous or frightening (especially when expecting to soon be affected even more directly).
   - Überzogene Erwartungen für eine friedliche Welt – die haben wir ja alle mehr oder weniger nach 1990 gehabt – sind nun brutal korrigiert worden. Die Einschläge kommen näher; das spüren die Bürgerinnen und Bürger. — Overly optimistic expextations of a more peaceful world – which we all had, more or less, after 1990 – were cruelly rectified now. The situation is getting increasingly dangerous; our constituents feel it.
2. _humorous · colloquial · specifically_ Said in reference to cases of death, illness and similar misfortunes becoming more common in one's circle of acquaintances and family, possibly feeling one's own time come.
   - Immer jung und ehrlich geblieben, barfuß und so weiter, nur körperlich ein bißchen aus dem Leim. Nur den Rücken spürt man schon, die Leber spielt nicht recht mehr mit. Da sitzen wir friedlich des Abends bei unsern Teichen und hören plötzlich: Die Einschläge kommen näher. — Always stayed young and honest, barefoot and all that, just getting up there in the years physically. You just start feeling your back, your liver isn't doing quote as well anymore. There we peacefully sit by our lakes in the evening, and suddenly we hear: The impacts are hitting ever closer to home.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Einschlag, näherkommen.

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