That expression comes from the days when people slept on beds filled with dried grass or hay.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Later, the doctor discovered that a small amount of dried brewer's yeast each day could prevent pellagra.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Later,the doctor discovered that a small amount of dried brewer's yeast each day could prevent pellagra.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

The woman dried them gently and set them on a soft cloth on the kitchen table.

VOA: special.2010.09.25

His diet during his trips includes chocolate candies,nuts, potato chips,cookies, dried beef and energy bars.

VOA: special.2011.03.23

Straw is the dried stem part of plants such as wheat, millet and sorghum.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The walls were made of local limestone and bricks of sun-dried mud called adobe.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Some gardeners plant potatoes under straw, or stems of dried grain.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

When a boat arrives, the material is cleaned and dried.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Adobe bricks must be dried completely before they are used.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The oil dried,leaving behind a partly solid substance called asphalt.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Her pink body was dried and wrinkled.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Later,Lake Otero almost completely dried up.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

In Pampa,the oil fields dried up.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Abode is sun-dried earth and straw.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Small woody plants. Dried grass.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

This London exhibition is showcasing fair-trade products, Olive oil from the Palestinian territories, chocolate, shirts made from fair-trade cotton and dried fruit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

The sandy dirt and dried-out fields of Thailand's northeast look little like the country's tourist brochures.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Foreign investors had pulled out billions of dollars last year as credit dried up.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

But then the financial crisis struck, freezing capital inflows as international credit dried up.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Women sit with vegetables, fruits and dried fish heaped in high piles.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The most famous mummies are the Egyptian ones, which were carefully dried out with salts, treated with oils and resins and wrapped in linen before being placed in a coffin.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

She is sorting through masses of dried green moss.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

The cattle are very thirsty at this point, the rains have not come yet, they need to get to the water points, and water points are dried up all along those regular migration routes, and that has been one of the causes of the friction."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23