Joe Blow is also an expression for a common man.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

There is an expression for this,too.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

It probably comes from an expression used for many years by people who fix parts of cars and trucks.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The severe economic crisis -- the Great Depression -- created an atmosphere for artistic imagination and creative expression.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

This expression makes the person left holding the bag responsible for an action, often a crime or misdeed.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The words hot potato,for example, give you no idea at all to the meaning of the expression,hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

A writer for the magazine "American Speech" said he first saw the expression used in nineteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Some language experts think this different taste is responsible for the birth of the expression baloney.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

For example, you hear the expression, ace in the hole, used by many people who would never think of going near a poker table.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Now,people use the expression to mean to prepare for dealing with any kind of trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

They were looking for differences in gene expression in the guts of the bees.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

It was hard for him to fully understand what he saw in her expression.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The American inventor,Samuel F.Morse, is largely responsible for the birth of the expression.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

And that's one of the things Jacob was noted for. His level of expression is so profound that even with a few strokes, he can pick up the action and show it to you".

VOA: special.2009.09.02