I added a sticky to this one redirecting people to the feddit.org board. I don’t want to delete it immediately as not everyone here is necessarily subscribed there, let’s give it a bit of a transition window for people to notice before I delete the sub.
Found the German! The English equivalent of “der Zug ist schon abgefahren“ would be “that ship has sailed”. Which is pretty funny if you think about the geography of the UK versus the German speaking realm.