Auf die Schnauze, in die Traufe
"Und wieder buch' ich Flüge auf die Schnauze
Von zuhause in die Traufe"

Could you please explain this fragment or translate it into English?
I know the meanings of the words but I don't get it.

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Auf die Schnauze, in die Traufe
"Und wieder buch' ich Flüge auf die Schnauze
Von zuhause in die Traufe"

Could you please explain this fragment or translate it into English?
I know the meanings of the words but I don't get it.

You may find the context right here:
https://genius.com/Alligatoah-wie-zuhause-lyrics

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"Auf die Schnauze fliegen" literally means "to fall on your mouth". This expression is a metaphor for all kinds of bad luck. Of course this is not the kind of "flight" you would book. In this case I read this line as: "Everything I plan to do ends badly".

"In die Traufe" is a part of the saying "vom Regen in die Traufe". Picture someone who is seeking shelter from the rain, puts himself under a roof, but ends up in a place where all the rain water is running down from the roof. So he gets even wetter than out in the rain.

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Thank you so much!

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"And again I'm booking flights flat on my face
from home to worse"

basically what he is trying to say in a song context, is that he makes bad decisions and thus falls flat on his face, or is stumped by them, partly taken from the idiom "Auf die Schnauze fallen"

In the second part we have a part of the idiom "Vom Regen in die Traufe", which means "from bad to worse", he just changed "Vom Regen" into "Von zuhause".

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