Joke of the week [468 = year 9, #52] "Geddit?": (39), idiom 13 (June 27, 2011 - July 3, 2011)  

Q: Why was the crab arrested.
A: It pinched something
*.      *pun on the literal versus the idiomatic meaning of "to pinch"  [German: stehlen, klauen, mitgehen lassen, stibitzen etc.]
www.dict.cc/?s=to+pinchhttp://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&sectHdr=on&spellToler=&search=to+pinch 

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, etc., etc.

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