[Ads-l] pinch a loaf (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAJIDBtb8Wk

is comedian Dom Irrera using the phrase in a 1987 Rodney Dangerfield comedy special (at approx. 0:39)




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HDAS, s.v. loaf.  From 1991.

--Charlie

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I see this on Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pinch_a_loaf ) but not on the Oxford Dictionary site. No idea how long it's been around, but it's not new.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA=3D

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