But the term "exquisite corpse" comes from a game in which a group of people collectively write a story.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"No," you say,"it just can't be true! Who told you?" Comes the answer, "I got it by the grapevine."

VOA: special.2009.02.22

A boy can be in hot water with his mother, if he comes into the house with dirty,wet shoes.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

He says when it comes to saving energy and money, big changes start with small steps like turning out the lights.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

It probably comes from an expression used for many years by people who fix parts of cars and trucks.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

It comes from earlier days when the Roman Catholic Church ruled that Catholics must not eat meat on Fridays.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

And everywhere was silence- the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and more than half of those beans come from two countries in West Africa.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

"What we do is,somebody comes to us with a piece of personal property and they own that piece of property.

VOA: special.2011.04.18

And many have. Yet now comes a study showing an increase in the number of injuries in "phys ed" class.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

A low-fat diet is one in which less than thirty percent of a person's daily calorie intake comes from fat.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

"Mississippi Masala" was a nineteen ninety-one film about an ethnic Indian family exiled from Uganda when Idi Amin comes to power.

VOA: special.2009.05.04