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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