• You can see the wisdom and experience in her face, which is very different from the baby's wondering expression.

    VOA: special.2009.03.23

  • The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.

    VOA: special.2011.05.29

  • But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

    VOA: special.2010.01.31

  • 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

  • You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

    VOA: special.2009.07.12

  • It is cut to the chase. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company.

    VOA: special.2010.07.25

  • It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

    VOA: special.2009.05.10

  • Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

    VOA: special.2010.01.17

  • It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

    VOA: special.2010.05.23

  • Speaking of personal questions, there is an expression people sometimes use when their children ask, "where do babies come from?"

    VOA: special.2009.06.28

  • Alec Ross at the State Department says "the global community should respond" wherever freedom of expression is under attack.

    VOA: special.2011.06.27

  • But there is an expression to get cold feet that has nothing to do with cold or your feet.

    VOA: special.2009.12.13

  • The expression "fireworks" gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

    VOA: special.2009.07.05

  • The expression probably began because the jungle is filled with wild animals and unknown dangers that threaten people.

    VOA: special.2010.05.16

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