One of Washington's officers,Royall Taylor, used the expression in a play about Daniel Shay's rebellion.

VOA: special.2011.05.22

About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

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

VOA: special.2009.09.22

He had a big, fat, red face and a sleepy expression in his eyes.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

He had a big,fat,red face and a sleepy expression in his eyes.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

He says newspapers in Cincinnati,Ohio used this expression in the eighteen seventies.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

British writer Charles Dickens used this expression in eighteen forty-three.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

He wrote that he often hears this expression in movies.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Sir Thomas More used the expression in fifteen thirty-four.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

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

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

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

It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10