For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Some language experts say the expression came from a name given to noisy supporters of Andrew Jackson...

VOA: special.2010.04.11

In the hot,noisy factories where steel was made, she saw beauty and a subject for her pictures.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And if the room is really noisy, she may say it is a three ring circus.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

"You are welcome." The man's voice thunder down the rocks louder than the noisy waves.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The expression also means a great show of noisy anger, or something exciting.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

The cow finished drinking, and as the nine-year-old child hurried through the forest to the home she loved, she thought again about the noisy town where her parents still lived.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Quiet people may become noisy and aggressive.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Roosevelt was an active,noisy man.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

On Tuesday, in a noisy lobby of a congressional office building, reporters bombarded financial services chairman Barney Frank,a Massachutsetts Democrat, with questions about the AIG bonuses.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

The so-called Red Shirts, supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have mounted a series of targeted demonstrations, ranging from ritualistic blood curses to head-shaving to noisy parades through the streets of the capital.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27