We use the expression to clown around when we talk about someone playing tricks and making jokes.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The phrase to be left holding the bag is as widely used as the expression to let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

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

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Some word experts say the expression to frame someone comes from the way wood must be fitted closely around a painting or photograph to frame it.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

The expression to kick the bucket is almost two hundred years old.

VOA: special.2011.06.05

The expression to be in hot water is one of them.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

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

The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.

VOA: special.2011.05.29

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

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

It is cut to the chase. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

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

VOA: special.2009.05.10

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VOA: special.2009.11.21