English In Use – ‘Crystal Methodist’

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.

News Round Up 93

News Round Up

by Patrick O’Connor

SCOTLAND Yard may have a reputation for catching villains but its drivers can’t seem to tell their diesel from petrol, says the Daily Express.

Police drivers who fill up at the wrong pump have cost the Yard more than a quarter of a million pounds over the past five years (despite warning signs on the fuel caps), figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show.

 

To tread the boards.

If you “tread the boards” you are an actor on the stage, but these floorboards are well trodden. More entertainment idioms.

Roll vs Role

  Post by The Learn English Network. This one is for Hermine.   Roll vs role.