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English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate (Unit 100: Headline English)


Explain the joke in these headlines.

SURGICAL CUTS

Number of surgeons at hospital to be reduced.		 The headline is a play on two meanings of ‘cuts' (reductions; by the surgeon's knife).

HAMMER HIT HARD

A new version of the musical Cats opens.

DRAMATIC PAWS

Businessman Joe Hammer badly affected by the recent economic downturn.

HOT HEIR

Prince gives speech about climate change.
Possible Answer

  1. A hammer is a tool which hits nails into wood. The headline is a play on the businessman's name and the headline use of hit to mean affect.
  2. A dramatic pause is a phrase used to refer to a pause in speech made for dramatic effect. Cats have paws, a homophone of pause.
  3. Hot air means a lot of talk with little meaning. The prince is talking about climate change, i.e. global warming. Heir is a homophone of air and the prince in the story is presumably the heir to the throne.
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