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English in Use - 'Crib Tickler'

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.

'Crib Tickler' is a Sun newspaper headline on a story that Cara Brown thinks she laughed so hard at a Michael McIntyre at London's O2 arena that her waters broke and she went into labour six weeks early. The headline is an adaptation of 'rib tickler' a phrase used to describe a story or joke which makes you laugh a lot, here they replaced 'rib' with 'crib' - a baby's cot.

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