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Bagged in a Newspaper Headline
The headline is saying that listrus has replaced boris johnson. It calls her a loyalist, and that means she was a strong supporter of him before. That's not the word we're looking at though. We are looking at bagged. Now, i'm sure you all know what a bag is. But here it's being used as a verb to bag something. So in this case, listres has got the job of being the british prime minister. And we can use this with competitions,. You could say that he bagged the top prize - but it's quite informal. This is a kind of slang, that's right. The newspapers are trying to grab
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