• 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

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

    VOA: special.2011.05.29

  • 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

  • "These freedoms of expression and worship, of access to information and political participation, we believe are universal rights.

    VOA: special.2009.11.21

  • 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

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

    VOA: special.2009.01.11

  • Nothing much can stop it. Americans still use the expression "to bulldoze" but mainly in political situations.

    VOA: special.2009.02.15

  • Like Helen Martins, outsider artists add new life, imagination and skill to the world of creative expression.

    VOA: special.2010.04.14

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

    VOA: special.2010.04.11

  • If you ever tried to walk on a fallen tree log, you understand what the expression means.

    VOA: special.2009.06.07

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