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

VOA: special.2010.04.11

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

VOA: special.2010.09.26

Language expert Charles Earle Funk said the expression was first used almost seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Experts on language say the expression was born more than two hundred fifty years ago, when pirates sailed the seas, attacking and robbing trade ships.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

And,the expression swan song has long been a part of the English language.

VOA: special.2010.04.11