So I've never felt like a minority because,as you know, minorities are never supposed to say anything unkind about one another."

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The experts also say you must look at the picture as the American public saw it in nineteen forty-five.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

I smiled to myself and said "But some people say that he is as good a judge of wine as you are."

VOA: special.2009.02.07

For example, you might hear a student say to her friend that her spelling test was "as easy as falling off a log."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

You might say your child was good as gold when he behaved well at school.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

You might say a person is as cool as a cucumber if he never seems to worry about anything and stays calm in a stressful situation.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

It you are really angry, you might say you are mad as a hornet.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

If you were reading a book in your warm bed on a cold winter's day,you might say you were snug as a bug in a rug.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

If you were reading a book in your warm bed on a cold winter's day, you might say you were snug as a bug in a rug.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

"We cannot say subsidies but we call it machinery restructuring, because as you know the machinery for the shoe is already 20-years-old."

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

Lesley Prasad, a leading operating room officer, shows the picture a Haitian man sketched while being treated in the hospital as a way for him to say thank you.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"As you can say for this demonstration I think they should focus more - I mean truly focus - on what the working class or the labor unions really need."

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

If you do not cooperate with us, you are not going to get your medical treatment. And the surgeon from the Americans, they say we not see you as a patient.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"That character piece is the foundation. As we like to say, when you are put in very challenging environments, like the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, or recently in western Iraq.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06