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English In Use - 'Wiki Hasn't A Pot To Leak In'

A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.

There's a (not so) quaint English idiom 'don't have a pot to piss in' which means somebody or something doesn't have much value or is very poor. The Sun adopted it for a story that Wikileaks has called a halt to revealing any more secrets because it is running out of money. Their headline was: 'Wiki Hasn't A Pot To Leak In'.  

"To piss" and "To take a leak" are both ways of saying "to urinate".   

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