Possible Clues:

• You've no right to take this in for the bird
• Clear the register, maybe
• Stick up for someone with a bad name on the take?
• Take unlawfully from
• Have it in for the bird and pinch it
• Steal violently
• He might make one feel the pinch
• Pick a pocket
• Co-star of Carroll, Jean, and Sally
• Laura Petrie's husband