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English In Use 'No Place Like Gnome'

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.

There's no place like home is a common idiom, meaning that home is the best place to be and it has been adapted slightly by the headline writers at the Daily Express on a story that Marcela Telehanicocva from Ivybridge, Devon,  woke up to find more than a hundred gnomes in her garden! Their headline read: 'No Place Like Gnome'

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