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English In Use - Break-in Bad

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.

Breaking Bad was a smash-hit American TV crime series and it proved the inspiration for a headline in The Sun newspaper of 'Break-in Bad' on a story claiming that police only solve one in every 10 UK burglaries. In this context a "break in" describes forced entry to a building.

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