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English in Use
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Written by Patrick O'Connor
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Sunday, 08 August 2010 14:22 |
This headline from the Daily Mirror will mean absolutely nothing to you unless you are aware of a popular British TV commercial. The headline of 'Think We Know Where They Should Have Gone' relates to a story about an accident in which a car driver crashed into the front of an opticians shop in Malvern Links, Worcestershire. The female driver of a Toyota Yaris automatic mistakenly put her foot on the accelerator and the car ended up embedded in the building! The headline is a play on the punchline 'Perhaps She Should Have Gone to Specsavers' for the well-known opticians.
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