Arnold Zwicky's Blog

KAL’s editorial cartoons in The Economist are not especially given to word play, but in the current issue (June 20th, p, 9) he deploys a pun:

That’s arms the limbs of the body vs. arms ‘weapons and ammunition’, involved in arms races (arms expansion) as opposed to arms reduction. With a jab at Vladimir Putin as a bodybuilder.

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