Tesla's share price recovered from the drubbing it took after Elon Musk tweeted that it was too high, which wiped $15bn off the company's market value.
The Ampel parties, by contrast, are set for a drubbing. In Saxony and Thuringia all three could fall below the 5% threshold needed to enter parliament.
Its prize for this miserable drubbing is not a participation trophy, but a consent order from regulators instructing it to improve internal oversight and change how it measures risk.
And Hansi Flick is lucky he's not sitting in that press conference or he wasn't sat in that press conference and he wasn't talking about an absolute drubbing because it could have been that today.
No sooner had I recovered from one sound drubbing than I put myself in the way of another. " Unpractical" I was called by those who spoke mildly; " idiot" — I am sure — by many a ruder tongue.