Joke of the week [464 = year 9, #48] "Geddit?": (35), idiom 9 (May 30, 2011 - June 5, 2011)  

Q: Why did the picture go to jail?
A: Because it was framed*.     *pun on the literal versus the idiomatic meaning of "to be framed"
http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=899038&idForum=2&lp=ende&lang=de & http://idiomsandexpressions.com/category/keywords/being-framed 
cf: 21, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458 , 459 etc.

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