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

He said a successful gunfighter could not let fear or anything else force him to shoot too soon and miss the target.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

That means early signs of economic recovery, like the way plants begin to shoot up from the ground as a sign of spring.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

But,clearly,fish in a barrel would be much easier to shoot than fish in a stream.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Ottoline Leyser from the University of York says that after a plant is pruned, all the inhibited shoot tips compete with each other to grow.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

It is hard to imagine why anyone would want to shoot fish in a barrel.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

The group said there was a direct link between the murder and the anti-apartheid song called "Shoot the Boer."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

African National Congress Youth Wing Leader Julius Malema said he would accept a request by the ANC leadership to stop singing,"Shoot the Boer."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Recently,director Dayyan Eng brought Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey to China to shoot a bilingual comedy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The vessel has the technological potential to shoot down a North Korean ballistic missile, something neither the United States nor Japan have ruled out doing.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

He is also believed to have been involved in a botched attempt to shoot down an Israeli charter jet leaving the Mombasa airport the same day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

As Russia struggles in the embrace of the worst drought since 1880, the Kremlin worries that food prices will shoot up, blowing apart inflation targets for this year, a year before parliamentary elections.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23