So you might say you were as busy as a bee if you spent your weekend cleaning your house.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The researchers say if hospitals do these things, they will reduce medication errors, as well as the costs related to these mistakes.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

For example, if a child says things she should not say to her parents, she might be described as a mouthy child.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

You might say a person is as cool as a cucumber if he never seems to worry about anything and stays calm in a stressful situation.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

He told his son-in-law in December: "I will not say I would not serve if the good people were to be so unwise as to elect me."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

They say it feels as if someone is sitting on them.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

We're all free agents. If I wanted to work as a professor, I could send out notes to a hundred different universities and say 'Does anyone want to hire me?'

VOA: special.2010.07.26

If uncontained,experts say oil could saturate beaches and marine habitats as far away as Florida, devastating fishing and tourism.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

"If you say,just because I'm using abbreviated forms, as I do,and change my punctuation, as I do,when I'm sending email, that it's affecting the rest of my written language, that,I'm afraid,simply doesn't happen,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"So as you can imagine, if you are say 50,55 or younger, the surgeons will be very hesitant to place these metal joints in your body because knowing that in 10 to 15 years, there's a chance these would fail."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a Senate hearing that the missile tested by Iran was likely in the lower end of a 2,000 to 2,500 kilometer capability, but added U.S.officials could not yet say if it hit its target as claimed by Tehran.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

But they say the United States is losing patience with what they see as fruitless overtures to Tehran, and they say they believe that sanctions should be imposed without delay if the long-anticipated visit to Tehran by President Lula fails to produce results.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Shops are open; people are at work. But many Poles are also asking questions such as why so many of the country's political leaders were traveling on one plane and why, if as Russian authorities say, the pilot ignored warnings against trying to land in poor weather conditions.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12