L2 writing 1

J obviously does a lot of writing in school, so I haven't been having him do extra writing in German at home. We're starting that now, in a very limited way. 

In order to make it enjoyable, J will be writing only one small thing at a time, any word, expression, phrase, or short sentence from his reading that he finds particularly good or funny. Today it is a sentence with the expression in die Zange nehmen, "to take somebody in a pincer movement."