Showing posts with label Collocations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Collocations. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Sherlock, to break into my flat

Sherlock, Series 01, Episode 01, A Study in Pink


Sherlock Holmes: You can't just break into my flat.


DI Lestrade: And you can't withhold evidence. And I didn't break into your flat.


Sherlock Holmes: Well what do you call this then?


DI Lestrade: ...It's a drugs bust.


Break into: to enter a building or a car by using force in order to steal something

(bust : a situation in which the police go into a place in order to catch people doing something illegal)

Monday, 26 March 2012