"If you hold a crab up to your ear, you can hear…

“If you hold a crab up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by a crab” is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. The usual saying is that if you hold a seashell up your your ear, you can hear the ocean.

“If you hold a crab to your ear you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by a crab” was posted on Twitter by Grumpy Old Gamer Lady on November 30, 2018. “IF YOU HOLD A CRAB UP TO YOUR EAR YOU CAN HEAR WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE ATTACKED BY A CRAB” (shown on an image) was posted on Twitter by Crab on May 30, 2020. The saying probably originated on an image.

Twitter
Grumpy Old Gamer Lady
@KimberleyRScott
Replying to @headius
In related news: If you hold a crab to your ear you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by a crab.
5:49 AM · Nov 30, 2018·Tweetbot for Mac

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Dhaerrow March 9, 2020
If you hold a crab up to your ear you can hear the sound of a crab attack.

Twitter
Crab
@yesiamcrab
Then don’t hold a crab to your ear.
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
IF YOU HOLD A CRAB UP TO YOUR EAR
YOU CAN HEAR WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE
ATTACKED BY A CRAB
2:39 PM · May 30, 2020·Twitter for Android

Twitter
Geoff Duncan
@GeoffDuncanLive
Here’s a fact: if you hold a crab to your ear, you’ll hear what it’s like to be bitten by a crab.
#yourwelcome #truescience
1:38 AM · Jun 8, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

Twitter
Reverened Dusty Pettes
@btchnkitchen
If you hold a shell to your ear it sounds like the ocean,
If you hold a crab to your ear it sounds like getting attacked by a crab
8:17 AM · Aug 14, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

Twitter
Lionblaze
@Lionblazeeee
if you hold a crab to your ear you can hear what it sounds like to be attacked by a crab
8:55 PM · Apr 23, 2021·Twitter Web App

Twitter
Rainbowz Piñata
@RainbowzPinata
Hold a crab to your ear, and you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by a crab.
9:33 PM · Jul 4, 2021·Twitter Web App

Facebook
im not right in the head.com added a new photo to the album: NOT RIGHT AQUARIUM.
July 25, 2021 at 7:06 PM ·
Shared by Wesley Serdahl
Little known fact…
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
If you hold a crab
up to your ear
YOU CAN HEAR WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE
ATTACKED BY A CRAB