Lesson #34

April 2, 2018

Brazil’s ‘Car Wash’ scandal featured in Netflix series

Operation Car Wash"”the massive investigation into corruption in Brazil that has stretched on for five years"”will be the topic of a new series on Netflix directed by JosÃ© Padilha. The eight-part series, called "The Mechanism," centers on one criminal money-launderer and two investigators. The crux of the scandal is corruption"”and we talk about how to use the word "crux" in English.

Lingo

Far-fetched

To be "far-fetched" is to be unrealistic

Expression

Crux

The "crux" is the most important part of a situation

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