That expression comes from the days when people slept on beds filled with dried grass or hay.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Newspaper reports about a banking crisis in Russia used that expression.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

But there is an expression to get cold feet that has nothing to do with cold or your feet.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

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 "fireworks" gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

The expression probably began because the jungle is filled with wild animals and unknown dangers that threaten people.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Charles Haynes is a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, a group that studies free expression issues.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

The expression fireworks gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

So it is not surprising that top is part of another expression that describes an important person.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

It cannot be changed. The expression comes from the idea that water that has fallen over a dam cannot be brought back again.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom which is a little less than two meters.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

There was a sweetness and softness in the woman's expression that I had never seen before.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

To keep your head above water is a colorful expression that means staying out of debt.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom -- which is a little less than two meters.

VOA: special.2011.03.06