An enemy of the people!
Well, that had to hurt.It's almost as bad in the reefer:
Charlottean gets shot at Beijing
Strike up the chorus, somebody: "Gets shot" is the textbook example of when to ignore all the "rules" you thought you knew about using articles in heds. Unless, you know, somebody actually did get shot.
posted by fev at 3:55 PM
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To be fair, "gets shot at Beijing" requires some work to get the other reading, because "in Beijing" would be the normal prepositional phrase. "At trials" though is the locative, so the idiom "shot at" doesn't jump out at you...
But you can't swap out the nouns willy-nilly without looking at the prepositions, that's for sure.
my misreading of "gets shot at Beijing" yields the idea of shot toward the city.
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