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English In Use - 'No Cannes Do'

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 the native speaker.

When the Leicester Mercury ran a story that the city's Mayor had blamed the newspaper's negative coverage for a cancelled trip to a business conference in the south of France,' it was perhaps no surprise that the Mercury carried the headline 'No Cannes Do'.

"No can do", is an informal was of saying "I am unable to do that."

 

 

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