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English In Use - 'Frankly, My Dear, It's Worth A Damn'

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.

'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn' is one of the most famous movie lines of all time, coming in the 1939 classic hit Gone With The Wind, starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. It undergoes a simple adaptation for a Daily Mail headline on a story that Leigh's former home in Tickerage Mill, near Uckfield, East Sussex, which was bought for £20,000 in 1961, is now up for sale for £3.5m to provide the headline 'Frankly, My Dear, It's Worth A Damn.'

 

 

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