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English In Use - 'Thaw Blimey'

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.

We Brits tend to get our knickers in a twist whenever there's a bit of snow, and the Daily Mirror's take on one particular weather story threw up a great headline. Apparently the Environment Agency advised people to build snowmen in their gardens to 'help slow the thaw down a bit.' Hence the headline 'Thaw Blimey', a clever play on the euphemism 'Cor Blimey' which is an exclamation of surprise.

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