Liliputins in German -5062

Es ist noch kein Meister vom Himmel gefallen ... "
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Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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Literal meaning of: “Es ist noch kein Meister vom Himmel gefallen”

I recently came across the expression:

Es ist noch kein Meister vom Himmel gefallen

There’s still no master [that has] fallen from the sky

I'm curious about the es ist part, which I understood as it is, but here seems to work more like es gibt.

How would you translate the literal meaning here?


Perhaps you understand it rephrased like this:

Noch kein Meister ist vom Himmel gefallen.

While this is not the idiomatic wording, it says exactly the same. If you know some German, you'll recognize ist as a present-perfect auxiliary: ist gefallen as in has fallen.

Es ist an expletive here (German/English Wikipedia). That's basically a word that is only there for syntactic reasons and bears no meaning. As such, it's very similar to the es in es gibt.

An attempt at a literal translation of the phrase:

No master has yet fallen from the sky.

The figurative meaning is:

Masters are made, not born.

The literal meaning is,

There still aren't any masters that have fallen from the sky as Godsend (windfall).

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godsend
noun
god·;send ;g;d-;send   also  ;g;d-
Synonyms of godsend
: a desirable or needed thing or event that comes unexpectedly
The widespread rain was a godsend for farmers.

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benediction
benefit
blessing
boon
felicity
good
manna
windfall