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English In Use - 'Here We Go...Snortin' All Over The World'

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.

What about this for a song title coming back to haunt you... A Daily Telegraph story about Status Quo lead singer Francis Rossi's claim that he spent the equivalent of £1.69m at today's prices on cocaine during the height of the rock band's success produced the headline 'Here We Go...Snortin' All Over The World', a play on Quo's 1977 hit 'Rockin' All Over The World.'

In this context "snorting" means to ingest an illegal drug, such as cocaine or heroin, by sniffing.

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