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English In Use - 'Peck On Someone Your Own Size'

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.

A Daily Mail story that pet parrot Wunsy scared off an attacker who grabbed her 25 year old owner Rachel Mancino in Sunny Hill Park, Hendon, London, by squawking and flapping its wings, drew the headline 'Peck On Someone Your Own Size', substituting 'Peck' for 'Pick'.

To peck is used to describe a bird striking or biting something with its beak.  The phrase 'pick on someone your own size' is usually said to someone who wants to fight a person who is smaller than they are. 

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