Joke
of the week [471 = year 10, #3] "Geddit?": (42),
idiom 16 (July 25, 2011 -
July 31, 2011)
Q: Did you hear what
happened to the paper company?
A: It folded.*
*pun on the literal versus the idiomatic meaning of "to fold" [~
to close down, to fail]
http://www.dict.cc/?s=to+fold
& http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=&search=to+fold
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.
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