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