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FYI, "mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schiessen" seems to be widely translated as the English idiom "cracking a nut with a sledgehammer". Also, rarely seen but IMO much more amusing in the imagery it evokes, "breaking a butterfly on a [torture] wheel".



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