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English In Use - Rot Tub

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.

A fishy tale in the Sun about a woman who having been dumped by her lover, filled his jacuzzi with dead mackerel.  See what they did?  The turned the term hot tub, into rot tub.  But they didn't stop there, oh no.  In a byline, they wrote - Sworn anemones. (Sworn enemies are people who really hate each other, and an anemone (in this context) is a kind of fish). 

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